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Mobile maps: the face of death in 1940s Romantic-Gothic films

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). Cambridge Scholars

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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
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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