Retrovision : 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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Sterling, Va. :
Pluto Press,
2001
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| Series: | Film/fiction ;
v. 6 |
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Table of Contents:
- Historical make-overs 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
- Historical make-overs 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