Dark Academia in various medias masterpost
“Dark academia is the unofficial term for a genre of fiction with stories that revolve around an academic campus. In literature, it’s recognized with the title campus or academic novel. Film has no term for it yet.
Dark academia works contain elements of satire, tragedy, and philosophy. They tend to promote humanities and liberal arts as passions for their protagonists to pursue. Since dark academia centers around an academic environment with young adults, most of the stories are coming-of-age.
Dark academia criticizes static social attitudes by encouraging new and unique social perspectives represented with its protagonists. Simultaneously, the genre emphasizes how students never truly get prepared for the turbulent reality they face outside their campus, despite a school’s claims to do so.”
-Definition by user @decadeance
Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
Hangsman by Shirley Jackson (1976)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1993)
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (1998)
Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum (1998)
The Chinese Garden by Rosemary Manning (1999)
The River King by Alice Hoffman (2001)
The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy (2002)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (2003)
Mona Lisa Smile by Deboarah Chiel (2003)
The History Boys by Alan Bennet (2004)
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman (2005)
The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler (2006)
Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (2006)
And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs (2008)
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (2010)
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood (2012)
Sleepwalking by Meg Wolitzer (2014)
Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates (2015)
Long Black Beil by Jennifer Finney Boylan (2017)
If We Were Villains by M.L Rio (2017)
People Like Us by Dana Mele (2018)
Rope by Dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1948)
A Seperate Peace by Dir. Larry Peerce (1972)
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Dir. Peter Weir (1975)
Suspiria by Dir. Dario Argento (1977)
Maurice by Dir. James Ivory (1987)
Dead Poets Society by Dir. Peter Weir (1989)
School Ties by Dir. Robert Mandel (1992)
A Little Princess by Dir. Alfonso Cuarón (1995)
Lost and Delirious by Dir. Léa Pool (2001)
Mona Lisa Smile by Dir. Mike Newell (2003)
The History Boys by Dir. Nicholas Hytner (2006)
Freedom Writers by Dir. Richard LaGravenese (2007)
The Great Debaters by Dir. Denzel Washington (2007)
Brideshead Revisited by Dir. Julia Jarrold (2018)
Black Swan by Dir. Darren Aronofsky (2010)
Kill Your Darlings by Dir. John Krokidas (2013)
The Riot Club by Dir. Lone Scherfig (2014)
Whiplash by Dir. Damien Chazelle (2014)
Raw by Dir. Julia Ducournau (2016)
Handsome Devil by Dir. John Butler (2016)
Novitiate by Dir. Margaret Bettes (2017)
Suspiria by Dir Luca Guadagnino (2018)
Dark Academia in Different Medias
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
How To Get Away With Murder (2014 - )
Life is Strange (season one)
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