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From Suspicion (1941) to Deceived (1991): Gothic Continuities, Feminism and Postfeminism in the Neo-Gothic Film

The Gothic mode is extremely fertile and malleable. With roots in eighteenth century sensation fictions, it has repeatedly renewed itself, arising in nineteenth century literary fiction, and extending to filmic and televisual forms in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The gothic mode has a paradoxical ability to assert relevance in new forms whilst it characteristically articulates an anxious relationship to the past. Gothic fictions and films commonly deploy suspense about past events, which are shrouded in secrecy and ambiguity, and then revealed in horrifying ways; or they feature violence of an atavistic form. The Gothic mode, then, frequently works through a dialogue between ...

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