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The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour (2014)
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3x1hour episodes. BBC. Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain's medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.

1/3 Liberty Diversity Depravity. How the Gothic revival came to influence popular art, architecture and literature.
2/3 The City and the Soul. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley warned of the dangers of science getting out of control.
3/3 Blood for Sale: Gothic Goes Global. How the language of Gothic increasingly came to encapsulate the 20th century's horrors.
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