Differences in the Dark: American Movies and English Theater

by Michael T. Gilmore

George Bernard Shaw once quipped that America and England are two cultures separated by a common language. In this innovative attempt to place the movies and theater in the larger context of American and English cultural differences, Michael Gilmore demonstrates that the most interesting way to understand the distinctions between the two cultures is by looking closely at each country's favorite art form.

Differences in the Dark is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231112246
• ISBN13: 9780231112246
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

If you like movies you'll like this book!

Those familiar with Dr. Gilmore's seminal text on American Romanticism may perhaps be initially startled at the theoretical daring of *Differences in the Dark*; thoughtful readers will, however, find in this chiaroscuristic artefact a blueprint for their post-Y2K lives. If, as Toni Morrison suggests, we are all merely "playing in the dark," then genre-based critiques of filmic performance are destined to subtend the vernacular. I think Gilmore's book is a good summer read, being very readable. People who have found themselves to enjoy works such as *Fried Green Tomatoes* and *A Circle of Friends* will lap up Gilmore's book like a warm saucer of milk.