Run by Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes from the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies

Date: 14th January 2020 – 3rd March 2020

Time: Evenings

Location: HOME Manchester, 2 Tony Wilson Pl, Manchester M15 4FN

Tickets: Full price £80, concessions £60. Course tickets include entry to two screenings. Booking link will be on HOME website soon.

What is Gothic cinema and how does it differ from horror films? This chronological course will explore its
history, from its transitional origins in the phantasmagoria show and the first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim Burton, with a focus on industry and genre.

The course will include six sessions and two screenings, with weeks devoted to topics such as the monster cinema of the 1920s and 1930s, the Female Gothics of the 1940s, the introduction of colour photography in the Gothic period films of the late 1950s, the European exploitation booms of the 1960s and 1970s, and the
animated films and Gothic superheroes that dominate the present.

Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes will be taking the workshop. Dr Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film and a founder member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. He is the author of the books Gothic Cinema (2020), Spanish Gothic (2017), Horror Film and Affect (2016) and Body Gothic (2014).