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1 online resource : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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British popular cinema
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British popular cinema.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Filmography: pages 237-265. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the past in British cinema / Claire Monk and Amy Sargeant -- Do we need another hero? : Ecce homo and Nelson (1919) / Amy Sargeant -- Death or glory? : the Great War in British film / Alan Burton -- Secrets and lies : black histories and British historical films / Stephen Bourne -- "If the world does not please you, you can change it" : The history of Mr Polly (1949) and The card (1952) / Tim O'Sullivan -- Cinema, monarchy and the making of heritage : A queen is crowned (1953) / James Chapman -- Camping on the borders : history, identity, and Britishness in the Carry on costume parodies, 1963-74 / Nicholas J. Cull -- Monkey feathers : defending Zulu (1964) / Sheldon Hall -- Ireland, the past, and British cinema : Ryan's daughter (1970) / Fidelma Farley -- Imperial migrations : reading the Raj cinema of the 1980s / T. Muraleedharan -- Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989) : genre and interpretation / James Quinn and Jane Kingsley-Smith -- The British heritage-film debate revisited / Claire Monk -- The content and the form : invoking "pastness" in three recent retro films / Amy Sargeant -- Taking liberties with the monarch : the royal bio-pic in the 1990s / Kara McKechnie. |
| Summary |
Exploring the ways in which British films represent the past, the contributors to this study ask whose history is being represented. With reference to various films they examine issues of authenticity, nationalism, race, class, colonialism & gender. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Historical films -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
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Historical films. |
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Great Britain. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Monk, Claire, 1963- editor of compilation.
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Sargeant, Amy, 1962- editor of compilation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Monk, Claire British Historical Cinema Hoboken : Taylor and Francis,c2015 9780415238090 |
| ISBN |
9781136366499 electronic book |
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1136366490 electronic book |
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9780415238090 |
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9781315011424 |
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1315011425 |
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