Rule, Britannia!: The biopic and British national identity

"Rule, Britannia! surveys the British biopic, a genre crucial to understanding how national cinema engages with the collective experience and values of its intended audience. The volume focuses on how screen biographies of prominent figures in British history and culture can be understood as in...

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Weitere Verfasser: Pettey, Homer B. 1954- (HerausgeberIn), Palmer, R. Barton 1946- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany SUNY Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series, horizons of cinema
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Zusammenfassung:"Rule, Britannia! surveys the British biopic, a genre crucial to understanding how national cinema engages with the collective experience and values of its intended audience. The volume focuses on how screen biographies of prominent figures in British history and culture can be understood as involved, if unofficially, in the shaping and promotion of an ever-protean national identity. The contributors engage with the vexed concept of British nationality, especially as this sense of collective belonging is problematized by the ethnically oriented alternatives of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish nations. They explore the critical and historiographical issues raised by the biopic, demonstrating that celebration of conventional virtue is not the genre's only natural subject. The chapters cover filmic depictions of such personalities as Elizabeth I, Victoria, George VI, Elizabeth II, Margaret Thatcher, Iris Murdoch, and Jack the Ripper. Rule, Britannia! offers a provocative take on an aspect of filmmaking with profound cultural significance"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xxxi, 329 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781438471112
9781438471129

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