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Rule, Britannia! : the biopic and British national identity

Pettey, Homer B., editor, Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor

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\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Subject: Biographical films Great Britain History and criticism. / National characteristics, British.
• ISBN: 9781438471112

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN1995.9.B55 R85 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE