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In this quote from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, Count Dracula tells Jonathan Harker about his intention to move to London (Stoker, 1993: 31). Dracula, one of a large number of nineteenth-century novels to address urban life in London, was published in 1897 when cinematography was just two years old. At the turn of the twentieth century, Victorian culture’s long-lasting fascination with London migrated into early non-fiction films revealing aspects of urban life at the heart of the British Empire (Figure 11.1).
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Cinquegrani, M. (2010). The Cinematic Production of Iconic Space in Early Films of London (1895–1914). In: Koeck, R., Roberts, L. (eds) The City and the Moving Image. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299238_12
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