The Gothic: from Dracula to The Shining
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The Golden Age of Gothic Films
The 19 seventies were a golden age of gothic films. A shift in the thresholds of censorship led to more explicit material. The rise of feminism and social anxieties also had an impact. But slasher horror can be very punitive towards women at times. And then again, people have re worked it and revised it.
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