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This collection of essays addresses important questions about the relationship between fact and fiction: When does history become myth, and when does myth become legend? Does a romanticized view of history distort the reality it is trying to convey, or in capturing the "spirit" of history,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Morey, Kathryn Anne, 1987- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Colección:Film and History.
Temas:
Historical films > History and criticism.
Film adaptations > History and criticism.
History in motion pictures.
Motion pictures and history.
Films historiques > Histoire et critique.
Adaptations cinématographiques > Histoire et critique.
Histoire au cinéma.
Cinéma et histoire.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Film adaptations
Historical films
History in motion pictures
Motion pictures and history
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I Royalty as Myth
  • 1. Anastasia(s): Cinematic Resurrections of an Imperial Grand Duchess 1928-1997 / Marit Knollmueller
  • 2. Intertwining Mythologies: The Last King of Scotland (2006) and the Representation of Idi Amin Dada's Royalty / Lorenzo Mari
  • 3. Arthurian Myths and Modern Tellings / Anna Martin
  • pt. II Nostalgic Utopias
  • 4. Last (White) Man Standing: The Philosophy of Racial Responsibility in The Last of the Mohicans and The Last Samurai / Vincent M. Gaine
  • 5. Glorifying the Past on Screen: Conquest 1453 / Orhan Kemal Kocak
  • 6. Legends, Romance, and the Intelligent Knowledge of History: Storytelling on Film and Imagining the Past / Heather Norris Nicholson
  • pt. III Understanding History on Film
  • 7. Rockumentary and Collective Memory: A Comparison of Hype and The Occy: A Doco / Robert A. Carr
  • 8. Historical Film Reception: Mediated Legends / Vincent Bisson
  • pt. IV Myths and Fairy Tales.
  • 9. History through the Fairy Tale: Mediating the Horror of the Spanish Civil War in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth / Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
  • 10. The Hunger Games: Past and Future Myths / Lynne Hibberd
  • 11. Evoking History through Fantasy: Pirates of the Caribbean and the Myths of the Golden Age / Mikhail L. Skoptsov
  • pt. V National Belonging and International Cinema
  • 12. The Spiraling Narrative Dialectic of La Vie en Rose / Noah McLaughlin
  • 13. Nostalgic Masculinity and Imperialist Fantasies in Parade's End / Enrica Picarelli
  • 14. The Interconnectedness of The Home and the World: Satyajit Ray's Poetic Rendering of the Anticolonial Struggle in Twentieth-Century Bengal / Rehuma Sazzad.

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