Screening European Heritage: Creating and Consuming History on Film

✍ Scribed by Paul Cooke, Rob Stone (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 315
Series: Palgrave European Film and Media Studies
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book provides a unique examination of the way Europe’s past is represented on contemporary screens and what this says about contemporary cultural attitudes to history. How do historical dramas come to TV and cinema screens across Europe? How is this shaped by the policies and practices of cultural institutions, from media funding boards to tourist agencies and heritage sites? Who watches these productions and how are they consumed in cinemas, on TV and online?, are just some of the questions this volume seeks to answer. From The Lives of Others to Game of Thrones, historical dramas are a particularly visible part of mainstream European film production, often generating major national debates on the role of the past in contemporary national identity construction.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Politics and Sociology of Screening the Past: A National and Transnational Perspective....Pages 3-24
British Flanders: Co-produced Television Drama and the Limits of a European Heritage....Pages 25-44
Whose Heritage?: Noi credevamo (We Believed) and the National, Regional and Transnational Dynamics of the Risorgimento Film....Pages 45-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Towards World Heritage Cinema (Starting from the Negative)....Pages 63-84
Rewriting History from the Margins: Diasporic Memory, Shabby Chic and Archival Footage....Pages 85-106
Facing Dark Heritage: The Legacy of Nazi Perpetrators in German-Language Film....Pages 107-126
Spectral Spanish Heritage: The Hauntology of La noche de los girasoles (The Night of the Sunflowers)....Pages 127-143
Adapting Balzac in Jacques Rivette’s Ne Touchez pas la hache (Don’t Touch the Axe): Violence and the Post-Heritage Aesthetic....Pages 145-162
The Ironic Gaze: Roots Tourism and Irish Heritage Cinema....Pages 163-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Historical Films in Europe: The Transnational Production, Circulation and Reception of ‘National’ Heritage Drama....Pages 183-207
From ‘English’ Heritage to Transnational Audiences: Fan Perspectives and Practices and Why They Matter....Pages 209-234
From ‘Auschwitz-land’ to Banglatown: Heritage Conflicts, Film and the Politics of Place....Pages 235-255
Cinematic Pilgrimages: Postmodern Heritage Cinema....Pages 257-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-290

✦ Subjects

Media Studies;History, general;European Cinema

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