Representing the eighteenth century in film and television, 2000--2015 / Karen Bloom Gevirtz.
Gevirtz, Karen Bloom, 1969- author.
2017
PN1995.9.E34
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Title Representing the eighteenth century in film and television, 2000--2015 / Karen Bloom Gevirtz.
Author Gevirtz, Karen Bloom, 1969- author.
ISBN 9783319562674 (electronic book)
3319562673 (electronic book)
9783319562667
3319562665
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-56267-4 doi
Call Number PN1995.9.E34
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4301/5
Summary This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television's fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century. Grounded in cultural studies, film studies, and adaptation theory, the book examines how these works represented the eighteenth century to assuage anxieties about values, systems, and institutions at the start of a new millennium. The first two chapters reveal how films like Gulliver's Travels (2010) or the remake of Poldark (2015) use history to establish the direct relationship between the eighteenth century and the twenty-first. The final chapters examine pairs of productions for how they address and legitimate different aspects of contemporary ideology such as attitudes toward race and gender, or the connection between technological and social progress.
Note Includes index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 13, 2017).
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1. Introduction
2. Gulliver's Travels: Silly, Silly, Silly Stories
3. Poldark: The Vampire that We Need
4. Austenland: The Past is a Foreign Theme Park
5. Crusoe and Crossbones: Longitude and Liberalism.

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