Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film and Television, 2000–2015
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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.
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.
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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Karen Bloom Gevirtz
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Adaptation Eigtheenth-century Fiction Poldark Austenland Crusoe Crossbones Gulliver's Travels