Gothic Cinema

Dr. Katharina Rein is a research assistant at the University of Potsdam. She received her PhD in Cultural Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2019. Her dissertation on the cultural and media history of stage magic in the late 19th century was awarded the Jubilee Prize for Young Scholars by Büchner Verlag. Her academic work has been published in four languages to date.

• Definition of terms and delimitation.- Elements, motifs, themes.- Gothic Cinema before 1960.- Gothic Cinema from 1960 onwards.- Gothic around 2000: old monsters in new guises.- Between old and new.- The Haunting of Hill House (2018).- Dracula (2020).- Crimson Peak (2015).