Imagining Hitchcock’s Gaslight
Cukor’s film is great, but not a Hitchcock thriller
George Cukor’s Gaslight is one of the great thrillers in cinema, at least when it comes to cultural signposts. It’s currently a selection in Criterion Channel curation entitled Noir by Gaslight and indeed, this film is one of the principle sources of the modern idea of gaslighting. Gaslighting is a psychological manipulation tactic in which a person …
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