The Color Purple film – Steven Spielberg (1985)
Film: Capote (Amazon Prime/Apple TV)
The Color Purple musical (2024) and soundtrack (Spotify)
Digital theatre + (use your De Lisle login to access this)
Lectures:
📖READ
Genre: Gothic
- Bram Stoker: Dracula
- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
- Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
- Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and other stories
- Daphne Du Maurier: Rebecca
- Susan Hill: The Woman in Black
- Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger
- Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House
- Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
- Elizabeth Gaskell : Gothic Tales
- Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto
- Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udo
🎧LISTEN
- Lear/1984 (In Our Time: Culture) (Spotify/BBC Sounds)
- House of Words Podcast – In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Spotify)
- Great Lives – Tennessee Williams (BBC Sounds)
- Witness History – Tennessee Williams on the BBC (BBC Sounds)
- Sunday Features – Literary Pursuits: Truman Capote (BBC Sounds)
- Desert Island Discs – Alice Walker (BBC Sounds)
- School of Poetry | News and events | Loughborough University (lboro.ac.uk)
Genre: Romance:
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma. Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility
- Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
- Charlotte Brontë: Villette
- Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure
- Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Truman Capote: Breakfast At Tiffany’s
- A.S. Byatt: Possession
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night
- George Eliot: Mill on the Floss
- Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
- E. M. Forster: A Room with a View
- Ian McEwan: Enduring Love, On Chesil Beach
📱WEBSITES AND APP
Understanding terminology:
Genre: Dystopia
- Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale. Oryx and Crake
- Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
- George Orwell: 1984
- Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
- Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
- Cormac McCarthy: The Road
- Kazuo lshiguro: Never Let Me Go
- Phillip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- William Gibson: Neuromancer
- Jack London: Iron Heel
- David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
- H.G. Wells: The Time Machine
Genre: War/ Conflict
- Pat Barker: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road
- Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong
- Joseph Heller: Catch 22
- JG Ballard: Empire of the Sun
- Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
- Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Andrea Levy: Small Island
- Susan Hill: Strange Meeting
- Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5
- Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth
- James Fennimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
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🗺 VISITS
- Stratford’s RSC theatre and Shakespeare’s birthplace
