The dark galleries : a museum guide to painted portraits in film noir, gothic melodramas and ghost stories of the 1940s and 1950s / Steven Jacobs & Lisa Colpaert.

"... The Dark Galleries deals with American (and some British) films of the 1940s and 1950s, in which a painted portrait plays an important part in the plot or the mise-en-scène. Particularly noir crime thrillers, gothic melodramas, and ghost stories feature painted portraits that seem to hold magic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Jacobs, Steven, 1967- (Author) Colpaert, Lisa (Author)
Corporate Authors:	Koninklijke Academie van de Hogeschool Gent (sponsoring body.) MER Paper Kunsthalle (Ghent, Belgium) (Publisher)
Language:	English
Published:	Gent, Belgium : AraMER, [2013]
Subjects:	Portraits in motion pictures. Art in motion pictures. Painting and motion pictures.
Physical Description:	173 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

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