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.
Taking a broad view of the relationships among film, literature,
and current events, Sadoff contrasts films not merely with their
nineteenth-century source novels but with crucial historical
moments in the twentieth century, showing their cultural use in
interpreting the present, not just the past.
General
Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2009 |
First published: |
February 2010 |
Authors: |
Dianne F. Sadoff
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
360 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-6092-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
General
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LSN: |
0-8166-6092-1 |
Barcode: |
9780816660926 |
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