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- Provides a new approach to romanticism and cinema which has not previously been studied from a historical materialist perspective in this way
- Combines aesthetics and politics in the face of a field which has in recent years been inclined to split these foci
- Offers a mix of cultural analysis and related commentary on pressing cultural political issues (English nationalism in a world of global capitalism)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book stages an encounter between romanticism in post-war and contemporary cinema and trends in historical materialism associated with revolutionary romantic historiography. Focused primarily on British cinema and examples of Hollywood cinema with significant relationships to British and English culture and history, it is loosely configured around three key emblematic motifs - country, land, people – that are simultaneously core values and rallying cries of distinctive varieties of conservative, restitutionist and revolutionary romanticism. The book seeks to establish the continuing relevance of the revolutionary romantic critique of capitalist modernity to contemporary political concerns such as the fate of the proletariat, populism, Brexit post-nationalism, ecocide and the Anthropocene.
Authors and Affiliations
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York, UK
Paul Dave
About the author
Paul Dave has taught at the University of East London, UK, and latterly at Teesside University, UK, where he was Reader in Film and Cultural Theory. His research focuses on the representation of class and capitalism and he has published widely on British cinema and literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Revolutionary Romanticism and Cinema
Book Subtitle: Country, Land, People
Authors: Paul Dave
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59646-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot 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), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59645-3Published: 24 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59646-0Published: 23 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 128
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour