40s crime films might evoke ideas of neon signs, hard-boiled detectives and venetian blinds, but another wave of Victorian set stories, 'gaslight noirs', looked to the past, and remain all too relevant.
🎬 Film Studies - Gaslight Melodramas: Murderous Men and Persecuted Women! | 15 Oct - 3 Dec
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With persecuted protagonists, viciously patriarchal villains, and shadow-filled settings, these proto-feminist texts are rich for analysis and kick off our Melodrama season at Showroom Cinema.
Each film will be contextualised in a lecture the following week with film historian Dr Sheldon Hall:
Gaslight (PG) | Wed 15 Oct
Dragonwyck (PG) | Wed 29 Oct
Fanny by Gaslight (CTBA) | Wed 12 Nov
Madeleine (U) | Wed 26 Nov
🎟️ Book a season pass for all four films and lectures
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