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Oooh, first post on here
Just wondered which genres everybody's doing.
I'm doing Fantasy.
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I REALLY wanted to do Slasher but that was before Dows just 'changed his mind' and decided that we couldn't do audio visual. I had started researching it, and was going to do the film SCREAM. Gutted, bloody gutted.
Well I am now thinking that I will do Gothic Horror because there is a lot written about the Gothic Novel. Maybe DR.Jekyl and Mr.Hyde?
My other option is The Hound of the Baskervilles which was considered and still is in most circles a Gothic Novel but is also considered Detective as it is Sherlock Holmes.
DO you reckon that would cause a prob because it's not typically one genre?
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I don't know. I suppose you might be able to mention that it could be taken as being more than one but then say why you think it's gothic.
I think i'd be inclined to agree with it being gothic actually, if you overlook the fact that there are the detective elements to it.
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I REALLY wanted to do Slasher but that was before Dows just 'changed his mind' and decided that we couldn't do audio visual. I had started researching it, and was going to do the film SCREAM. Gutted, bloody gutted.
Well I am now thinking that I will do Gothic Horror because there is a lot written about the Gothic Novel. Maybe DR.Jekyl and Mr.Hyde?
My other option is The Hound of the Baskervilles which was considered and still is in most circles a Gothic Novel but is also considered Detective as it is Sherlock Holmes.
DO you reckon that would cause a prob because it's not typically one genre?
Chris would love that because single genre stories rarely exist, which he will surely demonstrate throughout his lectures. He will also be asking you to identify the thematic traits present within the codes and conventions of the genres, and why the writer chose these.
For instance, Dracula is gothic horror, but at its heart it is primarily a romance. Bram Stoker was fascinated with the (at the time) terrifying realisation of sexually transmitted diseases, and how they are present in the blood. That's why he mixed the genre of horror (blood) and romance (sex), and of course, because of the Victorian sensibilities of that time, he implicitly created the now-famous vampire bite on the neck as a metaphor for that sexual contact that he could not explicitly write about in his novel.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks.
I decided to go with Strange Case of Dr.Jeckyl and Mr hyde as I found a good annotated version in Hull on Friday, not to mention it's shorter! 
But some of the sexual air of Dracula is in there too. There's prostitutes and the like. 
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I once read, and I don't know if it's totally true - Fitzgerald might be able to verify it - that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in just three days, showed it to his wife, who was disgusted and appalled at the work, so he promptly burnt it. Then, regretting his actions, he sat down and rewrote the entire novel from memory, again taking him only three days.
If it is true, it's impressive. Regardless, it is a great story, and, I believe, even more powerful in today's climate of gene therapy and Genetic Modification.
Good luck with it. 
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That's some achievement if he did do that.
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Probably something fantasy, I may just take one of the 34 books from the reading list though 
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Aww, don't be so boring!! Do David Gemmell!
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I once read, and I don't know if it's totally true - Fitzgerald might be able to verify it - that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in just three days, showed it to his wife, who was disgusted and appalled at the work, so he promptly burnt it. Then, regretting his actions, he sat down and rewrote the entire novel from memory, again taking him only three days.
That's a very true story, Edge44, and I tend not to think it was an exaggeration. The final text has a lot in it that was quite problematic to the sensibilities of its Victorian audience, and I wouldn't be surprised if Stevenson's first stab at the story was even more taboo. However, still to the average teenager weaned on Eastenders it would seem like pretty tame stuff.
However, that's not true of Walerian Borowczyk's 1980 film adaptation DR JEKYLL ET LES FEMMES/DR JEKYLL AND HIS WOMEN/THE BLOODBATH OF DR JEKYLL, which is one of the very few film adaptations to capture both (a) a sense of authenticity in its period setting, and (b) an air of the genuine sense of scandal and impropriety that Stevenson's manuscript provoked upon its first publication. Heck, the film even shocked me!
Sadly the Borowczyk movie is almost impossible to get hold of these days, and although it's found home video releases across the world, including a 1980s VHS release here in the UK, almost every version of the movie suffers some censor cuts. Consequently, there are many different cuts of the film in existence, and finding a complete version is extraordinarily difficult.
My friend Keith Brown has posted some fine words about this movie at his website:
http://www.kinocite.co.uk/16/1633.php
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