Gaslight melodrama : from Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood /: from Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Guy Barefoot.
• Authors: Barefoot, Guy, 1957-
• Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 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 RECONSTRUCTIONJekyll 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; Critque and Closure; 7 MELODRAMA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST; Notes
• Publisher Details: London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 791.43/653; Melodrama in motion pictures; Historical films -- History and criticism; Gas-lighting; PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; Gas-lighting; Historical films; Melodrama in motion pictures; Electronic books; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474290364; 1474290361
• Related ISBNs: 9781474290357; 1474290353
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 31, 2016).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.