Mill of the Stone Women & The Gothic Body

A VISUAL ESSAY ON THE TROPE OF THE WAX/STATUE WOMAN IN GOTHIC HORROR

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Documentary • Horror

A visual essay on the trope of the wax/statue woman in Gothic horror by author and critic Kat Ellinger. She examines the film through “body Gothic”: the way Gothic horror turns women’s bodies into sites of beauty, vulnerability, illness, artistic display, medical exploitation, and death.

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Mill of the Stone Women & The Gothic Body

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Kat Ellinger

Kat Ellinger

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