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Gaslight melodrama : from Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood / Guy Barefoot.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.M45 B37 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barefoot, Guy, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melodrama in motion pictures.
- Historical films--History and criticism.
- Historical films.
- Gas-lighting.
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, 2001.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Gaslight, Gaslight, and Gaslight Melodrama 1
- 2 Industrial Light and Magic: Images of Gaslight from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century 19
- Gaslight and the Nineteenth Century
- From Stage to Screen
- Toward the Modern City
- 3 Gothic Sources/London Discourses: The Dark Metropolis on Page and Screen 46
- Nineteenth-Century London at 20th Century-Fox
- Londonania
- Descent and Invention
- From the Medieval to the Suburban
- 4 Lady Isabel, Dr. Jekyll, and Other Victorians: Twentieth-Century Reception, Reaction, and Reconstruction 77
- Jekyll and Hyde
- America
- Britain
- Victorians, Vampires, and Piano Legs
- 5 The Furniture in the Attic: Back to the Victorian 110
- The Process of Historical Reconstruction
- Victoria the Great
- New Victorian and Neo-Victorianism
- Surrealism, Lost Forms, Hollywood
- Elegance, Wretchedness, and Age
- 6 The Body in the Canal: Decorum and Melodrama in the Period Film 140
- House by the River
- Ivy and Others
- The Suspect
- Critique and Closure
- 7 Melodrama and the Construction of the Past 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826453333
- 0826453341
- OCLC:
- 46634460
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