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Penny Dreadful (S2 E2) - Why Go There!?
Seawolf's Den Seek the Wolf in Thyself! http://seawolfsden.net Penny Dreadful (S2 E2) - Why go there!? Author : Ron McClung Categories : Horror Date : July 22, 2015 OK, I struggle with this every time I see it. I write off a movie if it contains any hint of it. I hate to see it any where it is used as a trope. It should NOT be a trope at all. What is it? The on-screen or implied killing of a baby or child. Why?? I have been watching Penny Dreadful (Showtime series) since it came out, on XBMC/KODI since it started. It is a cross between League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Van Helsing. Very dark and brooding Victorian age show dealing with all the classic monsters – Vampires, Werewolves, Frankenstein’s monster and a little Dorian Gray throne in. The first season was phenomenal. I could not get enough of the series. The second season as really started out good, bringing witches into the story. They have some top notch actors and the story is compelling. Characters include… Dorian Gray – immortal human who seems to be only in the show periodically to bring in more sexual stuff, because raunchy sex in the 1890s is hot, apparently. Sir Malcolm Murray – Father to Mina Murray/Harker (from the Bran Stoker’s Dracula), adventurer and Quatermain-type character. Ironically played by Timothy Dalton (who also played James Bond, like Sean Connery who played Quatermain in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – the movie that killed his career.) Vanessa Ives – Played by the much exalted (and HOT) Eva Green, I guess her last role in the 300 sequel knocked her down to TV roles. -
UCC Library and UCC Researchers Have Made This Item Openly Available
UCC Library and UCC researchers have made this item openly available. Please let us know how this has helped you. Thanks! Title The curse and the chora: The double-bind of the choraic conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful Author(s) Tembo, Kwasu D. Editor(s) Arnold, Sarah O'Brien, Anne Publication date 2021 Original citation Tembo, K. D. (2021) 'The curse and the chora: The double-bind of the choraic conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 20, pp. 104-118. doi: 10.33178/alpha.20.08 Type of publication Article (peer-reviewed) Link to publisher's http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue20/HTML/ArticleTembo.html version http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.08 Access to the full text of the published version may require a subscription. Rights © 2021, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Item downloaded http://hdl.handle.net/10468/10997 from Downloaded on 2021-09-26T18:05:26Z Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media no. 20, 2020, pp. 104–118 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.08 The Curse and the Chora: The Double-Bind of the Choraic Conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful Kwasu D. Tembo Abstract: Referring to the work of Julia Kristeva, this article seeks to perform a comparative analysis between Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), as she appears within the remit of Joss Whedon and David Greenwalts’s Angel (1999–2004), and Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) in John Logan’s Penny Dreadful (2014–2016). -
The Double-Bind of the Choraic Conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media no. 20, 2020, pp. 104–118 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.08 The Curse and the Chora: The Double-Bind of the Choraic Conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful Kwasu D. Tembo Abstract: Referring to the work of Julia Kristeva, this article seeks to perform a comparative analysis between Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), as she appears within the remit of Joss Whedon and David Greenwalts’s Angel (1999–2004), and Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) in John Logan’s Penny Dreadful (2014–2016). Taking each character as a case study, this article seeks to elucidate the precarious subject positions of central female leads in a team/ensemble horror television series in order to assess whether or not and how the portrayal and characterisation thereof has changed over two decades. To do so, this article employs a theoretical framing that examines the question of agency and power by assessing both characters as what I will call “Choraic conduits”. As such, both characters’ relation, manipulation of/by, and mediation of the supernatural as envisaged and presented in their respective diegetic worlds are analysed in themselves and comparatively against one another. Key concerns here are the questions and problems surrounding each character’s agency over her powers and the supernatural/spiritual realm(s) from which they emerge, as well as the psycho-physical and symbolic consequences of not only the possession of their respective powers, but the micro and macroscopic consequences of how they are used in their respective diegetic worlds. Introduction: Cordelia, Vanessa, the Demi-monde and Double-Binds This article performs a close comparative reading of two lead female characters in ensemble horror TV shows, namely Angel’s Cordelia Chase (1999–2004), created by Joss Whedom and Greenwalt David, played by Charisma Carpenter, and Penny Dreadful’s (2014– 2016) Vanessa Ives, created by John Logan, played by Eva Green. -
Read the Annotated Edition
Wail of an Ebbing Tide Annotated Edition © 2016 Xena Torres www.bitchofrome.com/pennydreadful Penny Dreadful is the copyright property of Showtime and Sky. It was created by John Logan and produced by Desert Wolf Productions and Neal Street Productions. This fan fiction story has been written for entertainment purposes only out of love for the show and out of respect to my fellow Dreadfuls. Dedicated to Eva Green for the gift of Vanessa Ives & my fellow Dreadfuls INTRODUCTION Why do an annotated edition? The purpose of an annotated text is to aid in the comprehension of the story. Perhaps it seems vain, or like a writer who refuses to see their material is overly complicated, but I would argue it is a sign of respect to the reader to not “dumb it down.” Penny Dreadful was a complex series that never talked down to its audience, so why write a fan fiction based on the series and assume the reader needs to have the story spoon-fed to them? As I stated in the author’s note of Wail of an Ebbing Tide, this sto- ry is best enjoyed if read at least twice. There are complexities wo- ven throughout the book that will be easier to pick up on a second read, but even doing that will not reveal everything the story has to offer; no reader is a master scholar in every subject with an eidetic memory. Like Penny Dreadful, the book is laced with references to the clas- sic literary sources, but even if you’ve read Dracula and Frankenstein, that does not make every reference obvious. -
Volume 5 • Issue 1 • May 2021 ISSN: 2514-8915
FANTASTIKA JOURNAL Volume 5 • Issue 1 • May 2021 ISSN: 2514-8915 Fantastika Journal • Volume 5 • Issue 1 • May 2021 EDITOR’S NOTE "Fantastika” A term appropriated from a range of Slavonic languages by John Clute. It embraces the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror, but can also include Alternate History, Gothic, Steampunk, Young Adult Dystopic Fiction, or any other radically imaginative narrative space. The goal of Fantastika Journal and its conferences is to bring together academics and independent researchers who share an interest in this diverse range of fields with the aim of opening up new dialogues, productive controversies, and collaborations. We invite articles examining all mediums and disciplines which concern the Fantastika genres. Welcome to this latest issue of Fantastika Journal, one which brings together a truly wonderful array of responses and pieces produced during the unprecedented circumstances of the last twelve months and beyond. We open with an editorial from Rob Maslen as a celebration of the opening of the ‘Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic’ at the University of Glasgow, UK, and its significance for Fantastika studies. Maslen’s editorial not only documents how such a centre came into existence, but productively asks what such a centre should ‘do’ or what it should be ‘for,’ and how that can help us to interrogate what we mean by Fantasy, the Fantastic, or Fantastika itself. Our first article from Eilis Lee explores the representation of female characters from Naomi Novik’s Uprooted (2015) and challenges whether the apparent progressivism of its central protagonists are effective in fulfilling escapes from objectification or consumption. -
The Curse and the Chora: the Double-Bind of the Choraic Conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful
UCC Library and UCC researchers have made this item openly available. Please let us know how this has helped you. Thanks! Title The curse and the chora: The double-bind of the choraic conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful Author(s) Tembo, Kwasu D. Editor(s) Arnold, Sarah O'Brien, Anne Publication date 2021 Original citation Tembo, K. D. (2021) 'The curse and the chora: The double-bind of the choraic conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 20, pp. 104-118. doi: 10.33178/alpha.20.08 Type of publication Article (peer-reviewed) Link to publisher's http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue20/HTML/ArticleTembo.html version http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.08 Access to the full text of the published version may require a subscription. Rights © 2021, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Item downloaded http://hdl.handle.net/10468/10997 from Downloaded on 2021-09-28T07:01:58Z Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media no. 20, 2020, pp. 104–118 DOI: https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.08 The Curse and the Chora: The Double-Bind of the Choraic Conduit in Angel and Penny Dreadful Kwasu D. Tembo Abstract: Referring to the work of Julia Kristeva, this article seeks to perform a comparative analysis between Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), as she appears within the remit of Joss Whedon and David Greenwalts’s Angel (1999–2004), and Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) in John Logan’s Penny Dreadful (2014–2016). -
Penny Dreadful Season 1 Trading Cards Checklist
Base set 01 Title Card 18 Ancient Symbols 02 Night Work Speak 03 Do Not Be 19 A New Man 33 I Need Blood! Amazed 20 Friends Well Met 34 A Night Out 04 Bodies and Blood 21 Ending of Things 35 From the Balcony 05 What We Fear 22 A Difficult Birth 36 Loving Lost Causes 06 Murder the World 23 Mankind’s Capacity 37 Be Someone Else 07 Beneath the Skin for Mercy 38 A Hero Returns 08 A Demimonde 24 Vanessa, Save Me 39 Beneath the 09 Dark Fortunes 25 I See Things Laughter Collide Sometimes 40 Meeting Their 10 Terrible Wonders 26 Wolves Among Us Gentlemen 11 Lovers and Lies 27 Find Me Some 41 Adventures and 12 My Transgression Chains Lies 13 Pierce the 28 Behind You in the 42 Loss of Self Ephemeral Veil Dark 43 The Worst Betrayal 14 Peel Back the 29 Brutalized with 44 Have You No Skin Loss Shame? 15 Mr. Gray Dazzles 30 Beautiful, Deadly, 45 Cruel Little Girl 16 When the Spirits Things 46 Something Inside Walked 31 Eaters of Flesh You 17 Possessed and 32 She Walks in 47 Echoes Already Damned Beauty Past TM & © 2015 Showtime Networks Inc. All Rights Reserved. Cryptozoic logo is a trademark of Cryptozoic Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. (s15) 48 Would You Like to 56 I Haven’t Been 64 Everyone Likes Have an Honest with You Oranges Adventure? 57 Demons Among Us 65 Winter Never Ends 49 Giving Away Your 58 Forgive Me, I Am 66 Not a Monkey Soul Not Myself 67 A Master’s Plan 50 My Young Friend 59 Let Me Die 68 Beyond All Hope 51 Let Life Divide 60 Together We Will 69 A Father’s Choice 52 Wear It For Me Topple God 70 Can We Start 53 Tremors Around Us 61 A Favor Over? 54 You Give Away 62 I Believe in 71 She Is Mine Nothing Everything 72 Checklist 55 The Dead Move 63 A Shred of Fast Decency A Demimonde A New Man Brutalized with Loss TM & © 2015 Showtime Networks Inc.