English Heritage, English Cinema

Costume Drama Since 1980
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-925902-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

This title discusses English heritage on film. It argues that the ambivalence of the films themselves and the richness of the reception process necessarily produces a range of often incompatible interpretations of the same films.

The costume drama was one of the important production trends in British cinema during the 1980s and 1990s. Films such as "Chariots of Fire", "A Room with a View", "Howard's End", "Sense and Sensibility", "Elizabeth", and "Shakespeare in Love" won numerous

List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. The English heritage film in the 1980s and 1990s: mapping the field; 2. Critical reception: heritage, ambivalence, and interpretation; 3. The commercial context of the heritage film: home affairs; 4. American commercial interests in the heritage film; 5. Case Study I: Howards End (1992); 6. Case Study II: Elizabeth (1998); Conclusion; Select filmography: 'British' Costume Dramas of the 1980s and 1990s; Select bibliography; Index

Autoren/Hrsg.

Higson, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations

- Introduction

- 1: The English heritage film in the 1980s and 1990s: mapping the field

- 2: Critical reception: heritage, ambivalence, and interpretation

- 3: The commercial context of the heritage film: home affairs

- 4: American commercial interests in the heritage film

- 5: Case Study I: Howards End (1992)

- 6: Case Study II: Elizabeth (1998)

- Conclusion

- Select filmography: 'British' Costume Dramas of the 1980s and 1990s

- Select bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Higson has taught Film Studies at Leicester and Sunderland Polytechnics. He joined the University of East Anglia in 1986, and was made a Professor of Film Studies in 2000. He was chair of the Film Studies sector at the University from 1991 to 1998, and Dean of the School of English and American Studies from 2002 to 2005. He has published widely on British cinema, on Film Europe, and on national cinema. He is co-director of the British Cinema History Research Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and based at the University of East Anglia.