Representing the eighteenth century in film and television, 2000--2015 / Karen Bloom Gevirtz.

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Representing the eighteenth century in film and television, 2000--2015 / Karen Bloom Gevirtz.

9783319562674 (electronic book)
3319562673 (electronic book)
9783319562667
3319562665

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

English

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10.1007/978-3-319-56267-4 doi

PN1995.9.E34

791.4301/5

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.

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