Andrew Graham-Dixon
Self - Presenter
The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour (2014)
Season 1
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain's medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.
Released Oct. 20, 2014
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.art, tmdb.art-history, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series
Network: BBC Four
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Liberty Diversity Depravity
In the middle of the 18th century - in England - an entirely surprising thing happened. Out of the Age of Enlightenment and Reason a monster was born - a Gothic obsession with monsters, ghouls, ghosts and things that go bump in the night. From restrained aristocratic beginnings to pornographic excesses, the Gothic revival came to influence popular art, architecture and literature.
Oct. 20, 2014, midnight
S1E2 - The City and the Soul
As the Industrial Revolution promised more and more inexplicable wonders of the modern world, Gothic art and literature became both backward and forward looking. In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley warned of the dangers of how science could get out of control, while Sir Giles Gilbert Scott used Gothic architecture to memorialise Prince Albert as a medieval hero. Meanwhile, poets indulged in hallucinatory drugs to reach new Gothic heights. Where would it all end?
Oct. 27, 2014, midnight
S1E3 - Blood for Sale: Gothic Goes Global
Gothic fantasy horror would be outstripped by real horror as the truth of mechanised warfare dawned on an innocent world in 1914. The language of Gothic would increasingly come to encapsulate the horrors of the 20th century - from Marx's analysis of 'vampiric' capitalism to Conrad's dark vision of imperialism and TS Eliot's image of The Wasteland, a Gothic narrative seemed to make more sense of the modern world more than any other.
Nov. 3, 2014, midnight
Network: BBC Four
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 180 min.
Released: Oct. 20, 2014
Last Air Date: Nov. 3, 2014, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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