Most are worth watching if you love gothic stories. Below include some of my favorites, but there are many more. Nosferatu (1922) –A German adaptation with changed names. Dracula(1931) – Old Hollywood classic starring Bela Lugosi. Horror of Dracula(1958) – Hammer classic starring Christopher...
based upon cultural proximity and intra-regional homologies, provides a cinematic template of ghosts and ghouls together with a grotesque menagerie of shapeshifting animals, imagined as either deities or demons. East Asian Gothic is an umbrella term which encompasses the cinemas of PRC, Hong...
Animate beings are people, animals, trees (not plants), vehicles, and the names of rivers, countries, mountains, and bodies of water: njevo ščenõ mičilõ "near the large stones"-but-njevo bojmõ mičilom "near the large trees"...
Kennedy Town & Pokfulam Kowloon (8 place names in 4 keychains) Yau Ma Tei & Tsim Sha Tsui Mong Kok & Tai Kok Tsui Sham Shui Po & Kowloon City Wong Tai Sin & Kwun Tong N.T. West (8 place names in 4 keychains) Kwai Chung & Tsing Yi ...
Ol’ Edgar was ahead of his time, really. A story about the rich cavorting without a care in the world as a plague stalks through the town, gruesomely killing any unlucky enough to cross its path? It’s almost eerie how it mirrors so much of the inequality present in our current situa...
the architect of Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, London, had also incorporated Gothic elements into his design. His Strawberry Hill mock castle was a forerunner to Victorian town halls, churches, and railway stations. He was also the author of the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764...
Walter Crane for London Town. Westminster Abbey Monks were supposed to live simple lives, but found ways around every rule, including the invention of a sort of sign language to get around the rule of no communication over mealtimes. It’s easy to see how the clergy became figures of fun...
Now, of course, they're legends. San Antonio is a town full of soul, a more buttoned up Austin with military history and the best Mexican food in the world. San Antonio didn't need Duncan to be a memorable place -- I'll always remember the Alamo, Santa Anna, William Bowie. (Those...
By the 1400s, the Gothic style was so predominant that builders routinely used Gothic details for all types of structures. Secular buildings such as town halls, royal palaces, courthouses, hospitals, castles, bridges, and fortresses reflected Gothic ideas. ...
Western architecture - Scandinavian, Vernacular, Gothic: The emergence of National Romanticism in Scandinavia in the 1880s gave rise to buildings such as Martin Nyrop’s Copenhagen Town Hall (1892–1902), which combined Northern Renaissance features with