by Guy Barefoot (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 09 Aug 2001
ISBN 10: 0826453341
ISBN 13: 9780826453341
Barefoot's strengths are in historical research, as the wonderful chapters on the history on the history of gaslight itself, and on the American yearning for, and reaction against, Victoriana, attest. - Canadian Literature, Winter 2004--Sanford Lakoff