Ramalho, Joana Rita;
(2017)
Mobile maps: the face of death in 1940s Romantic-Gothic films.
In: Hart, SM and Biedermann, Zoltan, (eds.)
From the supernatural to the uncanny.
(pp. 155-173).
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Abstract
This chapter exposes the ways in which cinema has been linked to the supernatural and focuses in particular on 1940s Romantic-Gothic films which are underpinned by a ubiquitous tension between art and death. A number of films are analysed in which the parallelism between art (portraiture, specifically) and death is evident, including John Harlow’s While I Live (1947), Terence Young’s Corridor of Mirrors (1948), and William Dieterle’s Portrait of Jennie (1948).
Type: | Book chapter |
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Title: | Mobile maps: the face of death in 1940s Romantic-Gothic films |
ISBN: | 1-5275-0037-3 |
ISBN-13: | 978-1-5275-0037-2 |
Publisher version: | https://cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-0... |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Gothic film, portraits, temporality, death |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10199237 |
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