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Hollywood and the invention of England : projecting the English past in American cinema, 1930-2017
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Hollywood and the invention of England : projecting the English past in American cinema, 1930-2017 / Jonathan Stubbs.
ISBN
9781501305870
1501305875
9781501305849
9781501305856
9781501305863
Publication
New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
vi, 213 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"Drawing on new archival research into Hollywood production history and detailed textual analysis of individual films, this book assesses the value of British-themed films for the American film industry while placing them in a broader historical context"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 15, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. England, their England
The uses of literature : adaptation and Englishness in the 1930s
Abstractions of empire : filming British imperialism in the 1930s and 1940s
Ideology and adventure : the post-war swashbuckler film
Cosmopolitanism and the Cold War : historical epics in the 1950s and 1960s
Boom and bust : the English past in the swinging sixties
Intimations of quality : English heritage and the "specialty" film the 1980s and 1990s
Pirates, wizards and wardrobes : the English past in the contemporary family film
Conclusion: an available past.
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