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First and major analysis of the historical film. The author is one of Britain’s leading film historians, author of successful Tauris books. This book is a key contribution to the literature on film genre and national identity. This ground-breaking book takes as its focal point director Ken Loach’s view that ‘The only reason to make films that are a reflection on history is to talk about the present.’ In the first book to take on this major genre in all its complexity, James Chapman argues that historical films say as much about the times in which they are made as about the past they purport to portray. Through in-depth case studies of fourteen key films spanning the 1930s up to the turn of the twenty first century, from “The Private Life of Henry VIII” and “Zulu” to “Chariots of Fire” and “Elizabeth”, Chapman examines the place of historical films in British cinema history and film culture. Looking closely at the issues that they present, from gender, class and ethnicity to militarism and imperialism, he also discusses controversies over historical accuracy, and the ways in which devices such as voice overs, title captions, and visual references to photographs and paintings assert

Who reads Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film (Cinema and Society)?

Author

Chapman, James

Publisher

I.B. Tauris ; In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9786000009908

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Historical Fiction, Sports