The cinematic eighteenth century : history, culture, and adaptation / edited by Srividhya Swaminathan and Steven W. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swaminathan, Srividhya, editor.

Thomas, Steven W., editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in film studies ; 54.

Routledge advances in film studies ; 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eighteenth century in motion pictures.

Historical films--History and criticism.

Historical films.

Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 196 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The Martian) to historical fiction on the subjects of slavery (Belle), piracy (Crossbones and Black Sails), monarchy (The Madness of King George and The Libertine), print culture (Blackadder and National Treasure), and the role of women (Marie Antoinette, The Duchess, and Outlander). This interdisciplinary collection draws from film theory and literary theory to discuss how film and television allows for critical re-visioning as well as revising of the cultural concepts in literary and extra-literary writing about the historical period.

Contents:

Introduction: representing and repositioning the eighteenth century on screen

Fashionable failures: ghosting female desires on the big screen / Ula E. Klein

Portrait of the queen as a celebrity: Marie Antoinette on screen, a disappearing act (1934-2012) / Dorothée Polanz

The king on screen / Elizabeth Kraft

"I have you in my eye, sir": the spectacle of kingship in The madness of King George / Jennifer Preston Wilson

Blackadder: satirizing the century of satire / Sarah B. Stein and Robert Vork

National treasure, the Declaration of Independence, and the erasure of print from the American Revolution / Colin Ramsay

How to be a woman in the highlands: a feminist portrayal of Scotland in Outlander / Courtney A. Hoffman

The king of Mars: the martian's scientific empire and Robinson Crusoe / Kyle Pivetti

The new cinematic piracy: crossbones and black sails / Srividhya Swaminathan

Sex, sisterhood, and the cinema: Sense and sensibility(s) in conversation / Jodi L. Wyett

Cinematic slavery and the romance of Belle / Steven W. Thomas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138633995

1138633992

OCLC:

975485156