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Victorian Vogue: British Novels on Screen

Victorian Vogue: British Novels on Screen

Sadoff, Dianne F.

Paperback

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 0816660921
ISBN13: 9780816660926
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Feb 1 2010
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Ranging from cinematic images of Jane Austen's estates to Oscar Wilde's drawing rooms, Dianne F. Sadoff looks at popular heritage films, often featuring Hollywood stars, that have been adapted from nineteenth-century novels.

Victorian Vogue argues that heritage films perform different cultural functions at key historical moments in the twentieth century. According to Sadoff, they are characterized by a double historical consciousness-one that is as attentive to the concerns of the time of production as to those of the Victorian period. If James Whale's Frankenstein and Tod Browning's Dracula exploited post-Depression fear in the 1930s, the horror films of the 1950s used the genre to explore homosexual panic, 1970s movies elaborated the sexuality only hinted at in the thirties, and films of the 1990s indulged the pleasures of consumption.

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