LECTURE: Where Victorian Ghost Stories & Film Analysis Meet
Schedule
Sun, 14 Dec, 2025 at 02:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
4651 Washington Street Extension, Wilmington, DE, United States, Delaware 19809 | Wilmington, DE
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Lecture: "Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge like it": Where Victorian Ghost Stories and Film Analysis MeetSunday, December 14, 2-4 p.m.
No Christmas season is complete without Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. From Muppets to classic retellings, this story regularly haunts the silver screen, but what is it about this one Victorian tale that calls to filmmakers for resurrection? A Disney version of this piece, directed by Robert Zemeckis and featuring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, and Colin Firth opened in 2009. Although the reviews were mixed, and in-depth analysis demonstrates the film's use of sound, lighting, and mise en scene brings to the fore that A Christmas Carol is a ghost story in the Victorian tradition. In this lecture, we explore the Victorian practice of telling ghost stories at Christmas and reevaluate Disney's A Christmas Carol as the seasonal horror story it was meant to be. FREE. All ages
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