Ellen Cheshire

This is the third of four posts on film versions of Alice in Wonderland with a particular emphasis on the Gothic and the Uncanny, which I originally wrote as a presentation for my Gothic MA. You can read part one, the introduction here. You can read part two here on Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland (1951) here. Also follow me on twitter @cheshellen for regular posts about Alice in Wonderland with the hashtag #CheshireonAlice. Jan Svankmajer In the opening credits for Jan Sva

This is the second of four posts on film versions of Alice in Wonderland with a particular emphasis on the Gothic and the Uncanny, which I originally wrote as a presentation for my Gothic MA. You can read part one here. Also follow me on twitter @cheshellen for regular posts about Alice in Wonderland with the hashtag #CheshireonAlice. Walt Disney In 1923, aged 21, Disney was working as an animator for the Laugh-O-Gram Studio on Alice’s Wonderland which featured a live-action

I have long been interested in film versions of Alice in Wonderland, well with the surname Cheshire how could I not be! Over the years I have accumulated over 130 film and TV versions which draw on Alice in Wonderland and other Lewis Carroll works, and I am currently watching and tweeting about these with the hashtag #CheshireonAlice. The first 50 tweets have been collated in a blog. Given this collection, when I was doing my MA Gothic: culture, counterculture, subculture and

Given my surname, I have always been a fan of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and his other writings. Over the years I have built up rather a large collection of film adaptations and related stuff, but for one reason or another hadn't gotten round to watching many of them. So last year I made a pledge to watch them, in chronological order, and tweet using the hashtag #CheshireonAlice. Here are the tweets for the first fifty I've watched, from the 1903 silent

On 9 February 2019 I led a Study Day on Gothic Cinema at Saffron Screen. In the morning I gave an overview of Film Form and Gothic Cinema, and in the afternoon sessions looking at film adaptations of Dracula and Wuthering Heights. I do hope you can join us. I did my MA in Gothic Studies at St Mary's University, and as a result have published some blogs on Gothic Cinema. You might find these of interest... Behind the Gothic Candelabra is an extract from a conference paper I