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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 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.
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International Noir
Examines the influence of noir on global cinema Early audiences were drawn to the experimental lighting effects, oblique camera angles, distorted compositions, and shifting points-of-view of film noir.International noir continues to appeal on a global scale, because no other cinematic form has merged style and genre to effect a vision of the disturbing consequences of modernity. In fact, various national cinemas now boast an indigenous expression of the genre and other cinematic genres continue to rely upon film noir's narrative structure and visual style, as evidenced by noir Westerns and noir Science Fiction. This collection of essays examines noir's influence on film narrative and technique in the ceinematic traditions of Britain, France, Scandinavia, Japan, China and Korea.
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French literature on screen
This collection presents new essays in the complex field of French
literary adaptation. Using a variety of textual and interpretive
approaches, it sheds light on issues of gender, sexuality, class,
politics and social conventions while acknowledging a range of
contexts, from the commercial to the archival and the aesthetic.
The chapters, written by eminent international scholars, run
chronologically from The Count of Monte Cristo through
Proust and Bonjour, Tristesse to Philippe Djian's
Oh… (adapted for the screen as Elle ).
Collectively, they fill a need for contemporary discussions on the
significance of France's literary representations in the history of
global cinema.
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