Retrovisions : reinventing the past in film and fiction / edited by Deborah Cartmell, I.Q. Hunter, and Imelda Whelehan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cartmell, Deborah.

Hunter, I. Q., 1964-

Whelehan, Imelda, 1960-

Series:

Film/fiction ; v. 6.

Film/fiction ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical films--History and criticism.

Historical films.

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

viii, 168 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This innovative book studies how films and texts re-imagine the past, and what it reveals about our contemporary culture.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849645058

1849645051

9780585433707

0585433704

OCLC:

860603623