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Titre(s) : Rule, Britannia ! [Texte imprimé] : the biopic and British national identity / edited by Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
Publication : Albany, [New-York] : State University of New York Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : xxxi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : The SUNY series, horizons of cinema
Lien à la collection : The SUNY series. Horizons of cinema
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-302) and index
"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"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Pettey, Homer B. (1954-....). Éditeur scientifique
Palmer, R. Barton (1946-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Films biographiques -- Grande-Bretagne
Caractère national britannique -- Au cinéma
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 580941 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thèmes historiques, politiques et militaires - Îles britanniques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781438471112. - ISBN 1438471114. - ISBN 9781438471129. - ISBN 1438471122. -
ISBN 9781438471136 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45748461f
Notice n° :
FRBNF45748461
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Preface / / R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey ; ; Introduction : the Kray twins
and biographical media / / Homer B. Pettey ; ; Part I. Royalty and politicians. The
biopic, the nation, and counter-history in the films of Derek Jarman / / Marcia Landy
; ; Elizabeth I and life of visual culture / / Homer B. Pettey ; ; Gender and authority
in the Queen Victoria films / / Jeffrey Richards ; ; The re-centering of the monarch
in the royal biopic : The queen and The king's speech / / Giselle Bastin ; ; The
Iron Lady : politics and/in performance / / Linda Ruth Williams ; ; Part II. Artistic
biography. Casting the British biopic : The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1934-1957
/ / Deborah Cartmell ; ; The muse's tale : rewriting the English author in The Invisible
Woman / / Hila Shachar ; ; A matter of life and art : artist biopics in post-Thatcher
Britain / / Jim Leach ; ; Closer and closer apart : questioning identities in Richard
Eyre's Iris / / Mark Luprecht ; ; Part III. Crimes and warfare. Carving the national
body : Jack the Ripper / / Dominic Lennard ; ; Leslie Howard's The first of the few
(1942) : the patriotic biopic as star vehicle / / R. Barton Palmer ; ; Who the man
who never was, was / / Murray Pomerance ; ; Secrecy and exposure : the Cambridge
spies / / Erica Sheen.
