Gaslight Melodrama From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood 1st Edition by Guy Barefoot ISBN 1474290361 9781474290364

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ISBN 10: 1474290361

ISBN 13: 9781474290364

Author:  Guy Barefoot 

Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood 1st Edition: 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 by 1940s Hollywood melodramas such as Gaslight, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Hangover Square. It also discusses a related cycle of British films that located murder and melodrama in Victorian or Edwardian settings, and then looks beyond cinema to the Gothic novels of the 18th century, 19th century discussions of gas lighting in street, home and theatre, and ambivalent 20th century responses to the Victorian era. Combining close analysis of particular film texts with attention to cinema’s cultural context, Gaslight Melodrama provides an exploration of the ways in which the past has been the site of contested meaning, and an examination of the network of melodramatic narratives embedded within familiar and lesser-known examples of classical Hollywood cinema.

 

Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Gaslight, Gaslight, and Gaslight Melodrama
2. Industrial Light and Magic: Images of Gaslight from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century

• 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

• 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

• Jekyll and Hyde
• America
• Britain
• Victorians, Vampires, and Piano Legs

5. The Furniture in the Attic: Back to the Victorian

• 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

• House by the River
• Ivy and Others
• The Suspect
• Critique and Closure

7. Melodrama and the Construction of the Past

 

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