Ellen Cheshire

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

150 years ago, people read for the first time Alice’s immortal line “And what is the use of a book, without pictures or conversation?” How she would have loved the movies! On Saturday 23 May 2015 I'll be giving a paper at the Wonderlands: Reading/Writing/Telling Fairy Tales and Fantasy symposium at University of Chichester, organised by the Sussex Centre of Folklore, Fairy Tale and Fantasy.You can see all the presentations from the Wonderlands conference here. I'll be talkin