NORTHANGER ABBEY
DVD
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Based on Jane Austen’s famous parody—a social satire masquerading as a Gothic romance—this stylish melodrama is sometimes creepy, sometimes comically over-the-top. A wide-eyed ingenue, her imagination set afire by reading spooky Gothic novels, enters the deceitful decadence of high society in 18th-century Bath, England. The story alternates between lurid dream sequences of imaginary horrors and Austen’s closely observed social interactions that reveal the world’s real horrors: insensitivity, delusion, materialism, and self-interest. Grades 10 and up. Closed captioned. Color. 90 minutes. BBC.
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