Mill of the Stone Women & The Gothic Body
“A visual essay on the trope of the wax/statue woman in Gothic 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.
Director: Kat Ellinger
Cast
Kat Ellinger
Narrator
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Details
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release
- Feb 17, 2025
- Runtime
- 24m
- Genres
- Documentary, Horror
- Studios
- Arrow Film & Video
- Director
- Kat Ellinger