UID:
edocfu_9959233556402883
Format:
1 online resource (284 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-136-36656-3
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0-415-23810-2
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1-315-01142-5
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1-136-36649-0
Series Statement:
British Popular Cinema
Content:
Films recreating or addressing 'the past' - recent or distant, actual or imagined - have been a mainstay of British cinema since the silent era. From Elizabeth to Carry On Up The Khyber, and from the heritage-film debate to issues of authenticity and questions of genre, British Historical Cinema explores the ways in which British films have represented the past on screen, the issues they raise and the debates they have provoked. Discussing films from biopics to literary adaptations, and from depictions of Britain's colonial past to the re-imagining of recent decades in retro films such as Velv
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the past in British cinema; 2 Do we need another hero? Ecce Homo and Nelson (1919); 3 Death or glory? The Great War in British film; 4 Secrets and lies: black histories and British historical films; 5 'If the world does not please you, you can change it': The History of Mr Polly (1949) and The Card (1952); 6 Cinema, monarchy and the making of heritage: A Queen Is Crowned (1953)
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7 Camping on the borders: history, identity and Britishness in the Carry On costume parodies, 1963-748 Monkey feathers: defending Zulu (1964); 9 Ireland, the past and British cinema: Ryan's Daughter (1970); 10 Imperial migrations: reading the Raj cinema of the 1980s; 11 Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989): genre and interpretation; 12 The British heritage-film debate revisited; 13 The content and the form: invoking 'pastness' in three recent retro films; 14 Taking liberties with the monarch: the royal bio-pic in the 1990s; Selective filmography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-23809-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-87895-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315011424
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