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Usually ships in 28-42 business days | | | | | | Guy Barefoot explores Hollywood's fascination in the 1940s, with late Victorian or Edwardian settings. All of the films studied are crime melodramas - films that feature a narrative pattern of sensation and reparation, and that involve crime, investigation and identification. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Guy Barefoot | | Paperback: | 224 pages | | Publisher: | Continuum | | Publication Date: | June 15, 2001 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0826453341 | | Package Length: | 8.8 inches | | Package Width: | 6.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.7 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 1 reviews |
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A "First Take" on an Interesting Subject Jan 24, 2005
I have always been interested in movies from the Forties set in the Victorian era, like "The Lodger," "Hangover Square" "Spiral Staircase," "The Suspect," "Dorian Gray," etc. However, there never seems to have been much written about them. They are ignored by books on Film Noir and on Horror Movies.
So "Gaslight Melodrama" steps in to fill this gap. Ironically, the book doesn't really analyze the movies but rather how the movies relate to ideas about the Victorian era. By presenting the Victorian era as dark and scary, they reflected a rebellion against Victorian values, but also played on an audience nostalgia for a more stable past.
When Barefoot talks about specific films, like "Gaslight," the 1941 "Jekyll/Hyde" and "House by the River," he is very knowledgeable and interesting. However, I would have liked more about the movies and how they related to each other and to the horror and noir genres.
This was an interesting book, but it leaves room for more on this subject.
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