“The Monk”. The Horror of the Immoral

Authors

  • Alicia Hernández Vicente Universidad de La Laguna

Keywords:

cinema, literature, gothic novel

Abstract

Dominik Moll directed in 2011 «The Monk», a new version of The Monk, a masterpiece of the Gothic literature. This is an interesting film, tell the story, but the story by itself. Mathew Lewis didn’t write a novel easy to be filmed, but Moll knew how the extract the supernatural and dark atmosphere, proper of the pure gothic style of the story.

Downloads

Published

2012-12-08

Issue

No. 10 (2012)

Section

Miscellaneous

License

The originals published in Latente are property of their respective authors, who grant to the magazine the right of first publication of the texts and their lodging in other web portals in order to guarantee their preservation and a greater diffusion. Article contents are subject to a CC BY-NC-SA license.

How to Cite

Hernández Vicente, Alicia. 2012. “‘The Monk’. The Horror of the Immoral”. Latente - Revista de Historia Y Estética del Cine, Fotografí­a Y Cultura Visual, no. 10 (December): 47-63. https://www.ull.es/revistas/index.php/latente/article/view/5872.