You have until July 18th 2021 to produce a 1,500 word MLA format research essay including an attached bibliography (appendix 1) showing research performed on Barry U subscription databases.
Write a 1,500 word argumentative research essay based on a comparative analysis of two or more complementary film and literary texts, including at least one we have studied this semester. Your essay must display an awareness of recent critical commentary on your texts, and must include reference to at least two secondary sources retrieved via the Barry University library subscription databases (such as the MLA bibliography, ProQuest, EBSCO Academic Search Premier, etc.).
Your essay should present original research on one of the following topics:
Choose one of the following topics:
1 Investigate the Romantic roots of one particular example of modern American gothic (e.g. The Walking Dead; Welcome to Night Vale; American Horror Story; Dark Shadows; Guillermo del Toro; Andy Muschietti (Mama 2013; It: Chapter One 2017); The Witch (2015); Tim Burton; Alan Moore [Swamp Thing, From Hell, Watchmen, etc.]; Rob Zombie; Batman; George Romero; Sam Raimi; Slipknot; Trent Reznor; Anne Rice; Get Out (2017); Blade; computer games, and countless others) and show how your chosen figure, work, or subculture Americanizes features of the European gothic tradition.
2 Compare and contrast the creature of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and at least one modern revision of it, emphasizing similarities and differences of effect caused by any changes of emphasis. N.B. If you plan to argue that an associated creature, e.g. Frankenstein (1931), Ava (Ex Machina, 2014), Roy Batty or Rachael (Blade Runner, 1982), Hulk, 2001’s HAL, A.I., C3P0, Terminator, etc. is an avatar of Mary Shelley’s creature, be able to show a clear connection with Mary Shelley’s original conception
3 Including some reference to David Skal’s short chapter “Rotten Blood” in The Monster Show (pp 333-352) investigate one or more examples of a vampire narrative in terms of the real and supposed qualities of blood, cultural constructions of it and/or anxieties about it [e.g. an antisemitic racial discourse in Nosferatu (1922); the idea of the “priestly” (Skal 347) or the aristocrat in Dracula (1931); as agent of death in Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” as signifier of various social rites of passage (Skal 352).]
Your essay must include some investigation of the relationship of American gothic to its roots in European Romanticism. The essay should include at least two secondary sources located on the subscription databases, such as ProQuest and the MLA bibliography. The paper should be presented electronically to this Canvas assignment. A screenshot of Barry U. database research must also be attached as an appendix at the end of your essay.