British Historical Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780415238106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str.

Claire Monk; Amy Sargeant

Opis

Films set in the past - recent or distant, real or imagined - have been the mainstay of British cinema since the silent era, popular with audiences both at home and abroad. Yet this popularity has also been made the historical film one of British cinema's most controversial genres, and a target for critical derision.

Spis treści

Do we need another hero? Ecce Homo and Nelson (1919) - Amy Sargeant 3. Death or glory? The Great War in British Film - Alan Burton 4. Secrets and lies: black histories and British historical films - Stephen Bourne 5. 'If the world does not please you, you can change it': The History of Mr Polly (1949) and The Card (1952) - Tim O'Sullivan 6. Cinema, monarchy and the making of heritage: A Queen is Crowned (1953) - James Chapman 7. Camping on the borders: history, identity and Britishness in the Carry On costume parodies, 1963-74 - Nicholas J. Cull 8. Monkey feathers: defending Zulu (1964) - Sheldon Hall 9. Ireland, the past and British cinema: Ryan's Daughter (1970) - Fidelma Farley 10. Imperial migrations: reading the Raj cinema of the 1980s - T. Muraleedharan 11. Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989) : genre and interpretation - James Quinn and Jane Kingsley-Smith 12. The British heritage-film debate revisited - Claire Monk 13. The content and the form: invoking 'pastness' in three recent retro films - Amy Sargeant 14. Taking liberties with the monarch: the royal bio-pic in the 1990s - Kara McKechnie

O autorze

Claire Monk is Lecturer in Media Studies at DeMontfort University. Amy Sargeant is Lecturer in History of Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London.