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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255061103321

Autore

Gevirtz Karen Bloom

Titolo

Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film and Television, 2000–2015 / / by Karen Bloom Gevirtz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-56267-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (134 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Palgrave Pivot

Disciplina

791.43023

Soggetti

Motion pictures—Great Britain

Motion pictures—United States

Film genres

Literature, Modern—18th century

British Cinema and TV

American Cinema and TV

Genre

Eighteenth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Gulliver’s Travels: Silly, Silly, Silly Stories -- 3. Poldark: The Vampire that We Need -- 4. Austenland: The Past is a Foreign Theme Park -- 5. Crusoe and Crossbones: Longitude and Liberalism.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television’s fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century. Grounded in cultural studies, film studies, and adaptation theory, the book examines how these works represented the eighteenth century to assuage anxieties about values, systems, and institutions at the start of a new millennium. The first two chapters reveal how films like Gulliver’s Travels (2010) or the remake of Poldark (2015) use history to establish the direct relationship between the eighteenth century and the twenty-first. The final chapters examine pairs of productions for how they address and legitimate different aspects of contemporary ideology such



as attitudes toward race and gender, or the connection between technological and social progress.