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Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood

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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, 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 discourses that gave rise to such films.The book's ...

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Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood 2016, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781474290357

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Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood 2001, Continuum, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780826453341

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