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Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood
Dr Guy Barefoot
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Description for Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood
Hardback. Series: Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 491.
In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted the emergence of a 'cycle of mystery and horror pictures placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century.' For another critic, it seemed that for Hollywood there was 'no world of today save the world of London by gaslight'. In Gaslight Melodrama, Guy Barefoot examines the films that gave rise to such comments, and the pattern of discourse that gave rise to such films. The book's main focus is provided ... Read more
In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted the emergence of a 'cycle of mystery and horror pictures placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century.' For another critic, it seemed that for Hollywood there was 'no world of today save the world of London by gaslight'. In Gaslight Melodrama, Guy Barefoot examines the films that gave rise to such comments, and the pattern of discourse that gave rise to such films. The book's main focus is provided ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474290357
SKU
V9781474290357
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About Dr Guy Barefoot
Guy Barefoot is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.
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