Retrovisions : Reinventing the Past in Film and Fiction /

"This book looks at the ways in which films and texts re-imagine the past, to investigate what this may reveal about our contemporary culture and society. Looking at a broad range of films and books that attempt to represent the past and placing them in their own historical context, the authors...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Cartmell, Deborah (Editor), Hunter, I. Q., 1964- (Editor), Whelehan, Imelda, 1960- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, [2001].
Series:Film/fiction ; v. 6.
Subjects:
Bibel > Philemonbrief
Historical films > History and criticism.
Film adaptations.
Films historiques > Histoire et critique.
Adaptations cinématographiques.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Film adaptations
Historical films
Literatur
Rekonstruktion
Vergangenheit
Historische motieven.
Letterkunde.
Filmkunst.
Historische romans.
Historische films.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Retrovisions: Historical Makeovers in Film and Literature / Deborah Cartmell and I.Q Hunter
  • 'No Man's Elizabeth' : the Virgin Queen in Recent Films / Renée Pigeon
  • Shakespeare in Love and the End(s) of History / Elizabeth Klett
  • Reflections on Sex, Shakespeare and Nostalgia in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night / Maria F. Magro and Mark Douglas
  • Black Rams Tupping White Ewes : Race vs. Gender in the Final Scene of Six Othellos / Pascale Aebischer
  • Cool Intentions : the Literary Classic, the Teenpic and the 'Chick Flick' / Sarah Neely
  • Peter Watkin's Culloden and the Alternative Form in Historical Filmmaking / Nicholas J. Cull
  • Mrs Brown's Mourning and Mr King's Madness : Royal Crisis on Screen / Kara McKechnie
  • The Grandfathers' War : Re-imagining World War I in British Novels and Films of the 1990s / Barbara Korte
  • 'Charm, Bowler, Umbrella, Leather Boots' : Remaking The Avengers / Stephen Longstaffe
  • Forbidden Planet and the Retrospective Attribution of Intentions / Judith Buchanan.

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