Gothic horror resurrects medievalism fused with Orientalism today

Evidence

Medieval imagery is displayed in numerous post-medieval forms, even today. Medieval characters, themes, and narratives—the knight, the damsel, and the crusade—are seen in Gothic fiction, late modern architecture and art, science fiction and horror literature, and horror films. The monsters that continue to be popular today are situated in Gothic horror, a genre that resurrects medievalism while also employing Orientalism. At the very least, medievalism continues to have an aesthetic agency that has survived into post-modernity. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 75

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that Gothic horror = medievalism + Orientalism is a direct pipeline into the reader’s guiding question about art forms (theology, tribal tales, art) as one manufactured system.