James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 horror film. The film stars Boris Karloff as the Monster, Colic Clive as Dr. Henry Frankenstein, and Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Pretorius. The film is a direct sequel to Whale’s 1931 films Frankenstein. Frankenstein and Pretorius create a Bride for their Monster, exploring themes of life, death, and creation. Though the film follows closely with the narrative structure of Classical Cinema and Hollywood studio production, the film’s style draws heavily
Gothicism was the return to classicism associating with the medieval period and the notion of returning to a particular kind of past. It was during the post-renaissance writers began to experiment with the conventions of literature and started to form this new literary genre. In the 18th-century there was a clear division between being male and female, men dominantly ruled society especially in certain aspects such as religion and law. Women lived in patriarchal societies and were forced to accept
The Gothic is the study of the otherness; the unseen. It disturbs us as it is associated with anxiety, chaos, darkness, the grotesque and evokes images of death, destruction and decay. (Steele, 1997)According to Catherine Spooner in ‘Contemporary Gothic’ 2006, “The Gothic lurks in all sorts of unexpected corners.” It is incredibly broad - superstitions, the uncanny, the monstrous, the forgotten past, the Gothic feminine - to name but a few are all elements which combine to form this theme. The Gothic