#bayou gothic

[swamp-gothic]

[cadexc]

[deadsaint444]

bayou

[degenderates]

Eve's Bayou (1997), dir. Kasi Lemmons

[bohemian-nights]

Eve’s Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons

[sleepynegress]

BELOVED - 1998

[luvrlola]

where the moon shines

[caniscryptid]

Lake Providence (top) and Schriever (bottom), Louisiana, 1940

[crumb]

Jennings, Louisiana (1976)

[matthewdwhite]

Jean Lafitte, LA 4/24

[sadboygrim]

Ditched my friends to go fish in the Bayou (Circa 1985-1995)

Artist: C.F. [MOTHER]

[swamp-gothic]

Bury me with some beers

[dimrememberedstory]

SOUTHERN GOTHIC CINEMA

“The Southern Gothic style employs macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American South. Thus unlike its parent genre, it uses the Gothic tools not solely for the sake of suspense, but to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South – Gothic elements often taking place in a magic realist context rather than a strictly fantastical one. . . .  Many characteristics in Southern Gothic literature relate to its parent genre of American gothic and even to European gothic. However, the setting of these works is distinctly Southern. Some of these characteristics include exploring madness, decay and despair, continuing pressures of the past upon the present, particularly with the lost ideals of a dispossessed Southern aristocracy, and continued racial hostilities.”

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) // The Night of the Hunter (1955) // The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) // Wise Blood (1979) // Interview with the Vampire (1994) // Eve’s Bayou (1997) // Winter’s Bone (2010) // The Beguiled (2017)

[jadeescoff]

thibodaux, louisiana

i think to myself, i can’t wait to leave this place, but i don’t know if i have the strength to do that anymore. i can’t sit in church anymore and listen to them condemn my behavior anymore.

[degenderates]

Eve's Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons

[intheholler]