The Conservative Side Of The Heritage Film Chariots Of Fire 1981 A Room With A View 1985 And Shakespeare In Love 1998

Author : Marie Will
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346899209
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Conservative Side of the Heritage Film. "Chariots of Fire" (1981), "A Room with a View" (1985), and "Shakespeare in Love" (1998) written by Marie Will and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Nottingham Trent University, course: British Cinema, language: English, abstract: The term “heritage film” is not easily recognised, even among fans of historical films and costume dramas. That is because it does not describe a genre of films as such, but rather a critical concept that is associated with “a powerful undercurrent of nostalgia for the past conveyed by historical dramas, romantic costume films and literary adaptions”. Costume dramas were neither new nor confined to the UK, as films such as “Gone with the Wind” (1939, US) and “My Fair Lady” (1964, US) prove, however it was the British film studies that defined the term “heritage film” in the early 1980s in light of the National Heritage Act. The original cycle refers to films, almost all of them adapted from literature, from the 1980s and 1990s that depict pre-Wold-War-II England in a nostalgic fashion. The basic ideas and concepts of the plot and the setting tend to be very similar. Nostalgia, the image of the upper-middle class and rural white Englishness are used to define a supposed English national identity. Because of these features, the heritage films were quickly related to Thatcherism and the very conservative Thatcherite values. In this essay, I am going to look at three films that are considered “heritage”, two of them coming from the first stages of the heritage film in the 1980s and the third one coming from the late 1990s when the heritage film had already undergone a major shift due to changes in politics and it being criticised. In comparing the three films firstly to the Thatcherite values and secondly to each other, I will look at the conservative undertones and the shift they underwent.

Author : Elena Marcarini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844571086
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Back to the Future written by Elena Marcarini and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292742055
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Film Genre Reader IV written by Barry Keith Grant and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From reviews of the third edition: “Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” —Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film’s most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.

Author : Robert Shail
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629688
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book British Film Directors written by Robert Shail and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British national cinema has produced an exceptional track record of innovative, creative and internationally recognised filmmakers, amongst them Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and David Lean. This tradition continues today with the work of directors as diverse as Neil Jordan, Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. This concise, authoritative volume analyses critically the work of 100 British directors, from the innovators of the silent period to contemporary auteurs. An introduction places the individual entries in context and examines the role and status of the director within British film production. Balancing academic rigour with accessibility, British Film Directors provides an indispensable reference source for film students at all levels, as well as for the general cinema enthusiast.Key features include:* A complete list of each director's British feature films.* Suggested further reading on each filmmaker.* A comprehensive career overview, including biographical information and an assessment of the director's current critical standing. * 10 B&W illustrations.

Author : Pantelis Michelakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110701610X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Ancient World in Silent Cinema written by Pantelis Michelakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic attempt to focus on the instrumental role of silent cinema in early twentieth-century conceptualizations of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. It is located at the intersection of film studies, classics, Bible studies and cultural studies.

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110724482X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Screening Early Modern Drama written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays captured the popular imagination at the turn of the last century, independent filmmakers began to adapt the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The roots of their films in European avant-garde cinema and the plays' politically subversive, sexually transgressive and violent subject matter challenge Shakespeare's cultural dominance and the conventions of mainstream cinema. In Screening Early Modern Drama, Pascale Aebischer shows how director Derek Jarman constructed an alternative, dissident approach to filming literary heritage in his 'queer' Caravaggio and Edward II, providing models for subsequent filmmakers such as Mike Figgis, Peter Greenaway, Alex Cox and Sarah Harding. Aebischer explains how the advent of digital video has led to an explosion in low-budget screen versions of early modern drama. The only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen to date, this groundbreaking study also includes an extensive annotated filmography listing forty-eight surviving adaptations.

Author : Nathan Abrams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780340984468
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Studying Film written by Nathan Abrams and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying Film is an all-encompassing guide to cinema and film which explores the key concepts, terms and events that have shaped film study and criticism, all of which is illustrated by reference to classic and contemporary movies from around the world, from The Great Train Robbery to Pulp Fiction via Un Chien Andalou and Cinema Paradiso. This accessible introduction to the study of film aims to stimulate students' enjoyment and understanding of a wide range of different types of film, and to give them an awareness of the nature of cinema as a medium, as an art form, and as a social and economic institution. Contemporary film is seen in context by tracing its development from 1895 to the present, exploring film production in a variety of countries in a range of styles, and placing film next to other media.

Author : K. Donnelly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597742
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book British Film Music and Film Musicals written by K. Donnelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton's score for Henry V (1944) and Malcolm Arnold's music for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and on the phenomenon of the British film musical.

Author : Magdalena Siemieńczuk
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668129045
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Selected Aspects of Drama and Film Translation written by Magdalena Siemieńczuk and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 6.0, University of Lodz (Philology), course: English Philology, language: English, abstract: The aim of this paper is to be a kind of guide for all the people dealing with drama and film translation who are aiming at successfully achieving their readers’ understanding. What is more, this paper tries to link experience derived from the world of theatre with translation knowledge connected with English Philology. It gives profound description of theatre environment and indicates how a translator can meet the demands and expectations of actors, theatre and film directors as well as their audience. It summarizes the experience of the greatest Polish translators such as for example Stanisław Barańczak with acting and rehearsing theory provided by Constantin Stanisłavski, the father of the most accomplished acting and directing system. Knowledge of these proceedings introduced by Stanisłavski is of the utmost importance for all film and theatre translations if their work aims to be understandable by the audience.

Author : Claire Monk
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748688862
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Heritage Film Audiences written by Claire Monk and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the contemporary audiences for quality period films, and their responses to these films, with reference to the critical debate which constructs many of these films as 'heritage films'.