The Gothic entrapment narrative structured the modern horror film genre.
Evidence
Formulas from Gothic literature established the dominant narrative expressed in horror film—the entrapment of the protagonist in a space where the universe contracts. These entrapments, which include “the corridors of uncounted castles, the dark warrens of Victorian slums, sewers, and mines, the fog shrouded streets of Jekyll’s or Jack the Ripper’s London, and the labyrinth that leads to Dracula’s castle,” are recycled or re-expressed in countless suspense, horror, and slasher films. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 649
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
Related
- Gothic entrapment formulas structure modern horror film narrative (similarity 0.90)
- Medieval Muslim-monster imagery persists today through Gothic horror and Orientalism (similarity 0.84)
- Gothic horror transmitted medieval Orientalist imagery into modern media (similarity 0.83)
- Gothic horror portrayed Muslim figures as damned sexual monsters (similarity 0.82)
- Gothic horror resurrects medievalism fused with Orientalism today (similarity 0.82)
- Gothic horror expanded Romantic vilification of Muslims into monstrousness as an anti-Enlightenment reaction. (similarity 0.82)
- Gothic literature expanded Romantic villainy into full-blown Muslim monsters (similarity 0.82)
- Gothic horror spaces function as demonic womb-like prisons for their victims (similarity 0.79)
- Orientalism passed medieval Muslim horrors into modern Gothic fiction (similarity 0.79)
- The Muslim in Gothic horror is damned for sexual sin in an Oriental setting (similarity 0.78)
- In Oriental Gothic tales, the landscape itself becomes a monster (similarity 0.78)
- Gothic stage adaptations deliberately softened horror into comedy for public taste (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Medieval Muslim-monster imagery persists today through Gothic horror and Orientalism
#corroborates(0.70) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 75 - Oriental villains shaped the Muslim monsters of Gothic horror
#corroborates(0.60) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 380 - The landscape itself operates as a monster in Gothic horror alongside human villains
#expands(0.55) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 506 - The Muslim in Gothic horror is damned for sexual sin in an Oriental setting
#exemplifies(0.50) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 422