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This chapter examines Gaslight as the first Hollywood domestic violence film and the only one to focus on psychological abuse or “gaslighting.” The discussion focuses on the conventions of this later Gothic romance, the abuser’s strategies of verbal and psychological abuse, and the film’s implications for contemporary domestic violence films.
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Shoos, D.L. (2017). Gaslight, Gaslighting, and the Gothic Romance Film. In: Domestic Violence in Hollywood Film. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65064-7_2
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