Pettey / Palmer Rule, Britannia!

The Biopic and British National Identity
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7113-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pettey, Homer B.

Palmer, R. Barton

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Preface
R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: The Kray Twins and Biographical Media
Homer B. Pettey

Part I. Royalty and Politicians

2. The Biopic, the Nation, and Counter-History in the Films of Derek Jarman
Marcia Landy

3. Elizabeth I and the Life of Visual Culture
Homer B. Pettey

4. Gender and Authority in the Queen Victoria Films
Jeffrey Richards

5. The Re-Centering of the Monarch in the Royal Biopic: The Queen and The King’s Speech
Giselle Bastin

6. The Iron Lady: Politics and/in Performance
Linda Ruth Williams

Part II. Artistic Biography

7. Casting the British Biopic: The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934–1957
Deborah Cartmell

8. The Muse’s Tale: Rewriting the English Author in The Invisible Woman
Hila Shachar

9. A Matter of Life and Art: Artist Biopics in Post-Thatcher Britain
Jim Leach

10. Closer and Closer Apart: Questioning Identities in Richard Eyre’s Iris
Mark Luprecht

Part III. Crimes and Warfare
11. Carving the National Body: Jack the Ripper
Dominic Lennard

12. Leslie Howard’s The First of the Few (1942): The Patriotic Biopic as Star Vehicle
R. Barton Palmer

13. Who the Man Who Never Was, Was
Murray Pomerance

14. Secrecy and Exposure: The Cambridge Spies
Erica Sheen

Bibliography
Selected Film, Television, Recordings, and Radio
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. His books include Film Noir and International Noir, both coedited with Palmer. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of the World Cinema program at Clemson University. His books include Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity (coedited with William H. Epstein); Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor (coedited with David Boyd); and Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (coedited with Pettey and Steven M. Sanders), all published by SUNY Press.