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.\u00a0
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Investigate the Romantic roots of one particular example of modern American gothic (e.g.\u00a0The Walking Dead;\u00a0Welcome to Night Vale;\u00a0American Horror Story;\u00a0Dark Shadows; Guillermo del Toro;\u00a0Andy Muschietti (Mama\u00a02013;\u00a0It: Chapter One\u00a02017);\u00a0The Witch (2015); Tim Burton; Alan Moore [Swamp Thing,\u00a0From Hell,\u00a0Watchmen, etc.]; Rob Zombie; Batman; George Romero; Sam Raimi; Slipknot; Trent Reznor; Anne Rice;\u00a0Get Out\u00a0(2017);\u00a0Blade; computer games,\u00a0and countless others) and show how your chosen figure, work, or subculture Americanizes features of the European gothic tradition.
2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Compare and contrast the creature of Mary Shelley\u2019s\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0and 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.\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0(1931), Ava (Ex Machina, 2014), Roy Batty or Rachael (Blade Runner, 1982), Hulk,\u00a02001\u2019s HAL, A.I., C3P0, Terminator, etc. is an avatar of Mary Shelley\u2019s creature, be able to show a clear connection with Mary Shelley\u2019s original conception
3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Including some reference to David Skal\u2019s short chapter \u201cRotten Blood\u201d in\u00a0The Monster Show\u00a0(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\u00a0Nosferatu\u00a0(1922); the idea of the \u201cpriestly\u201d (Skal 347) or the aristocrat in\u00a0Dracula\u00a0(1931); as agent of death in Poe\u2019s \u201cThe Masque of the Red Death,\u201d 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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