Southern Gothic
Southern Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction unique to American literature that takes place exclusively in the American South. It resembles its parent genre in that it relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot. It is unlike its parent genre in that it uses these tools not solely for the sake of suspense, but to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South. The southern Gothic style is one that employs the use of macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American south.
Notable works
Literature
Films
- The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
- Romance of the Limberlost (1938)
- Son of Dracula (1943)
- Intruder in the Dust (1949)
- The Glass Menagerie (1950)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Best Picture nom.)
- The Rose Tattoo (1955)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, Best Picture nom.)
- The Defiant Ones (1958, Best Picture nom.)
- The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
- The Tarnished Angels (1958)
- God's Little Acre (1958)
- The Fugitive Kind (1959)
- The Sound and the Fury (1959)
- Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
- Desire in the Dust (1960)
- Summer and Smoke (1961)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Best Picture nom.)
- Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
- Cape Fear (1962)
- Toys in the Attic (1963)
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
- This Property is Condemned (1966)
- The Chase (1966)
- Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
- The Reivers (1969)
- Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
- The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
- The Beguiled (1971)
- Deliverance (1972, Best Picture nom.)
- The Sugarland Express (1974)
- Days of Heaven (1978)
- Wise Blood (1979)
- The Beyond (1981)
- Southern Comfort (1981)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984, remake)
- Down By Law (1986)
- No Mercy (1986)
- Angel Heart (1987)
- Sweet Bird of Youth (1989, remake)
- Wild At Heart (1990)
- The Reflecting Skin (1990)
- Scorchers (1991)
- Cape Fear (1991, remake)
- The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
- My Name Is Mud (1993, music video)
- The Neon Bible (1995)
- The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)
- Dead Man Walking (1995)
- Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
- Sling Blade (1996)
- Eve's Bayou (1997)
- Eye of God (1997)
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
- The Gingerbread Man (1998)
- Wayward Son (1999)
- George Washington (2000)
- The Gift (2000)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- Two Soldiers (2003, short)
- Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2003, doc)
- The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
- Undertow (2004)
- A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
- Dead Birds (2004)
- The Skeleton Key (2005)
- The King (2005)
- Tideland (2005)
- Loren Cass (2006)
- Things That Hang from Trees (2006)
- The Reaping (2007)
- Black Snake Moan (2007)
- Hounddog (2007)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Midnight Bayou (2009)
- That Evening Sun (2009)
- Provinces of Night, also known as Bloodworth (2010)
- Winter's Bone (2010)[1]
Television
Music
See also
Notes
External links