Victorian Vogue: British Novels on Screen - Couverture souple

Sadoff, Dianne F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816660921 ISBN 13 : 9780816660926

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dianne F. Sadoff is professor of English at Rutgers University. She is author of several books and coeditor of Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (Minnesota, 2000).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816660921
• ISBN 13: 9780816660926
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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