Overview
- Proposes a new way of thinking about popular culture and adaptation that views history as a form of adaptation
- The first book to offer an extended study of the twentieth-century films and television productions of Gulliver’s Travels, Poldark, Crossbones, and Austenland
- Addresses the need for prescient analyses of popular materials and vital new insights into the way culture and history are mutually constitutive categories
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Karen Bloom Gevirtz is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Seton Hall University, USA, specializing in eighteenth-century British literature. She is author of Life after Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen (2005) and Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660-1727 (2014), and co-editor of Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820 (2014) with Mona Narain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film and Television, 2000–2015
Authors: Karen Bloom Gevirtz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56267-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56266-7Published: 20 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85870-8Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56267-4Published: 06 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 134
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: British Cinema and TV, American Cinema and TV, Genre, Eighteenth-Century Literature