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I just could not buy Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as characters from the 1950s and with so many modern filmmaking flourished from Scorsese mixed with the obvious gothicism of it all and Shutter Island felt confused and really quite boring.
Black & White Friday: Shutter Island Glenn Dunks 2010
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For myself, it's Burton's second greatest film (behind the 1994 effort, Ed Wood); saturated withthe gothicism and dark humour which makes his work bothredolent of the 1930s Universal horror films and also - somehow - thrillingly distinctive.
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For myself, it's Burton's second greatest film (behind the 1994 effort, Ed Wood); saturated withthe gothicism and dark humour which makes his work bothredolent of the 1930s Universal horror films and also - somehow - thrillingly distinctive.
Weekend Culture 2008
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Villette as examples of not simply one of the last gasps of high Victorian gothicism, but also of the internalization and critique of gothic theatrical technology.
Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_ 2005
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He was a complex writer, who believed correctly that both verisimilitude and gothicism depended on intricate structures of both plot and language.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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Villette as examples of not simply one of last gasps of high Victorian gothicism, but also of the internalization and critique of gothic theatrical technology.
Article Abstracts 2005
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Although we got there at midday with a strong sun that detracted from the potential gothicism of the place it still has a magic to it even at high noon, baby.
Archive 2004-05-01 Ed 2004
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Although we got there at midday with a strong sun that detracted from the potential gothicism of the place it still has a magic to it even at high noon, baby.
All we need is Blog? Ed 2004
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The _gothicism_, hinted at by Shaftesbury, appears manifestly in the wretched situation to which the best authors were reduced.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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But the season was past: _barbarity_ and _gothicism_ were already entered into the arts, ere the savages made an impression on the empire.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
Gammerstang commented on the word gothicism
(noun) - Rudeness of manners, barbarousness. Gothicize, to bring back to gothicism. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850
April 23, 2018