Sunday 19 February 2012 @ 6:00pm
Peacock Theatre
STRANGER WITH MY FACE FILM FESTIVAL
From Gaslight to Ginger Snaps – the Female Gothic on screen, talk with Adrian Martin (academic and film critic).
Renowned film critic Adrian Martin reflects on a tradition that encapsulates stories from Rebecca to The Bride of Frankenstein. There will be an opportunity for audience questions and discussion.
“We can start to track a particularly vivid tradition in film history with another unforgettable face in fright: Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight (1944). This movie – a sturdy Victorian melodrama glamourised but not compromised in its Hollywood re-telling – later came to be seen as a crucial part of a strange and potent cycle. Dana Polan called it “the Female Gothic film, in which a woman wonders about the designs upon her of the man in her life – does he love her, does he hate her, does he wish to do her harm?”
Booking not required, gold coin donation.
