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Heritage Film: Nation, Genre, and Representation
Belen Vidal
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Description for Heritage Film: Nation, Genre, and Representation
Paperback. Series: Short Cuts. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 151 x 9. Weight in Grams: 234.
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical debates around the heritage film, from its controversial status in British cinema of the 1980s to its expansion into a versatile international genre in the 1990s and 2000s. This study explores the heritage film in light of questions of national identity in film and television, industry and funding, and history, gender and representation. Using a wide range of examples and including an in-depth analysis of three case studies - Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Joyeux Noel (2005) and The Queen (2006) - this book presents the heritage film as a ... Read more
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical debates around the heritage film, from its controversial status in British cinema of the 1980s to its expansion into a versatile international genre in the 1990s and 2000s. This study explores the heritage film in light of questions of national identity in film and television, industry and funding, and history, gender and representation. Using a wide range of examples and including an in-depth analysis of three case studies - Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Joyeux Noel (2005) and The Queen (2006) - this book presents the heritage film as a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Short Cuts
Condition
New
Weight
233g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231162036
SKU
V9780231162036
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About Belen Vidal
Belen Vidal is Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London. She is the co-editor of Cinema at the Periphery (2010) and the author of Figuring the Past: Period Film and the ManneristA AestheticA (2012).
Reviews for Heritage Film: Nation, Genre, and Representation
The elusive and amorphous nature of the heritage film is adeptly brought into focus by this lucid discussion of the debates surrounding one of the most contested concepts in film and television studies... An invaluable introduction for students of national identity in film and television period drama.
Pam Cook, University of Southampton This series is tailor-made for modular approach ... Read more
Pam Cook, University of Southampton This series is tailor-made for modular approach ... Read more