Gothic LondonRecreating the Ancient City on Screen

Ian Christie

Gothic LondonRecreating the Ancient City on Screen

Ian Christie

Gothic may refer to:

1 Germanic people 2 Medieval culture 3 Romanticism4 Entertainment 5 Youth culture 6 Music 7 Typography8 Transport ...

A Christmas Carol: original illustration – and first screen version: Robert Paul’s Scrooge (1901)

THE NEMESIS OF NEGLECT‘There floats a phantom on the slum's foul air, Shaping, to eyes which have the gift of seeing, Into the Spectre of that loathly lair. Face it--for vain is fleeing! Red-handed, ruthless, furtive, unerect, 'Tis murderous Crime--the Nemesis of Neglect! ‘

Punch cartoon by John Tenniel, 1888

Louise Brooks in Georg Pabst’s Pandora’s Box (1929)

World War II London gothic in literature

Wartime Neo-Romantics: John Piper and Graham Sutherland

Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings, 1943)

Above: Blitz model for the Ealing film, The Bells Go Down

David Lean’s two post-war Dickens adaptations: Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948)

Both designed by John Bryan

Gustave Doré, London, a Pilgrimage (1872)

Oliver! (1968) Directed by Carol Reed, designed by John Box. Made at Shepperton Studios

Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist (2005), designed by Alan Starski, and filmed at the Barrandov Studios in Prague

The horror that lies beneath – London’s Underground as a locale for the modern Gothic

Reign of Fire (2002)

Reign of Fire (2002)

Gog and Magog, mythic giant guardians of London, still carried in the Lord Mayor’s parade

Ed. Roger LuckhurstFollow London Screen Study screenings at Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Imagehttp://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/bimi/whats-on/

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