| The gothic movie has been gradually getting closer to the genre film since the1990s. It increasingly tends to have some common characteristics with the genre film at the aspects of image, character and the way to narrate stories.The gothic movie has a crazy preference for abnormal figures and is dominated: by two kinds of typical images:the ghost with a representative of vampire and the insane.At the aspect of narration, a certain model of plot has been formed in the gothic movie. This means, it has themes of revenge and searching for something, has conflicts of dualistic opposition and endings with moral implications. Moreover, this model is usually accompanied with some narrative strategies, such as keeping narrative blind spots, narrating repetitively and setting up a character as the narrator.The unique image style of the gothic movie consists of gloomy and depressing color, mysterious and horrific light as well as the typical gothic scene. |
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