LA 498: The Gothic Tradition:

Literature + Art + Film + Culture

Because this was a senior level class, I encouraged students to multiclass, or, to put projects they were doing for other classes into conversation with the projects they were doing in ours. This was also a cross-temporal and cross-genre class. Some of the works that influenced this course include:

• Barbarians: Goths (History Channel 2004)
• Barbarians: The Savage Goths (Terry Jones 2006)
• Black Death Plague and Art History - Medieval Era (2009) and Gothic Art History (2009) by historyofpainters.com
• Gothic Cathedrals: Notre Dame to the National Cathedral (History Channel 1994)
• A Bible Carved in Stone: Amiens Cathedral (2010)
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) 
• Documentaries on Elizabeth Bathory, Vlad the Impaler, Werewolves, Vampires, and Ghosts
• Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, and the film Capote (2005)