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re: Best Southern Gothic Film
Posted on 11/30/16 at 6:32 pm to Yellerhammer5
Posted on 11/30/16 at 6:32 pm to Yellerhammer5
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To Kill a Mockingbird
While certainly a staple of Southern literature and film, does TKAM really qualify as Southern Gothic?
I'd put All the King's Men up there too, in that case (though I don't necessarily consider Robert Penn Warren a Southern gothic writer).
When I think Southern Gothic, I think Flannery O'Connor, Faulkner, Capote, Harry Crews, etc. It's got to have a little perversion of some kind in there (though not necessarily sexual perversion; could be religious or social perversion).
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Posted on 11/30/16 at 7:16 pm to tylerdurden24
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It's got to have a little perversion of some kind in there (though not necessarily sexual perversion; could be religious or social perversion).
It's about a rape (incest?) case. Since it's through the eyes of a child, it's not going to be explicitly spelled out. TKAM also perfectly hits on the supernatural theme of southern gothic by being from a child's perspective.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 8:50 am to tylerdurden24
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When I think Southern Gothic, I think Flannery O'Connor, Faulkner, Capote, Harry Crews, etc. It's got to have a little perversion of some kind in there (though not necessarily sexual perversion; could be religious or social perversion).
What about Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil?
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