Overview

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.

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Author:   Jonathan Stubbs (Cyprus International University, Cyprus)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.304kg
ISBN:  

9781501368134

ISBN 10:   1501368133
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   20 August 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: England, their England Chapter One: The Uses of Literature: Adaptation and Englishness in the 1930s 'Sound, Censorship and 'Better Pictures' 'Properly English and Properly Dickensian': David Copperfield (1935) 'The Best Possible Literature': A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) Literature at War: Wuthering Heights (1939) and Pride and Prejudice (1940) Chapter Two: Abstractions of Empire: Filming British Imperialism in the 1930s and 1940s 'Ruling and Protecting These Countless Millions': Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) 'One of the Most Distinguished Events in History': The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) 'Delightfully Evil in the Fascist Sense': Gunga Din (1939) Empire Films and World War II Chapter Three: Ideology and Adventure: the post-war Swashbuckler Film 'A Nation Divided': Ivanhoe (1952) 'Under Banners Unknown': Knights of the Round Table (1953) Chapter Four: Cosmopolitanism and the Cold War: Historical Epics in the 1950s and 1960s 'A Show on Film': Around the World in 80 Days (1956) 'The Magic of Distant Places': Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Chapter Five: Boom and Bust: The English Past in the Swinging Sixties 'A Living Past': Tom Jones (1963) and The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) 'Intimate Spectacle': Becket (1964) and Anne of the 1000 Days (1969) Manhattan Transfer: My Fair Lady (1964) and Camelot (1967) Chapter Six: Intimations of Quality: English Heritage and the 'Specialty' Film the 1980s and 1990s 'A Holiday Out of Time': Heritage Film and American Indies 'Films of Consequence': Heritage Goes to Hollywood 'An Emotional Event': the Rise of Miramax Chapter Seven: Pirates, Wizards and Wardrobes: The English Past in the Contemporary Family Film Licensing the Past: Intellectual Property, Conglomeration and the Franchise Boom Fantastic Rebates and Where to Find Them: Global Production and Incentive Schemes Conclusion: An Available Past Bibliography Index

Reviews

So much scholarship asks, What is national film production? This wonderful book poses a different question: How do films produce nations? Stubbs provides an answer through meticulous archival work and focused readings of movies. This is an important contribution to films studies and to the practices of history. * Eric Smoodin, Professor of American Studies, University of California, Davis, USA * In this authoritative and illuminating new study, Jonathan Stubbs investigates the cultural, political and industrial influences that shaped Hollywood's England. His book is an important account of a key aspect of film history and it is also important as a model of how film history should be researched and written. * Mark Glancy, Reader in Film History, Queen Mary University of London, UK *

Author Information

Jonathan Stubbs is an Professor in the Faculty of Communication at Cyprus International University. Prior to this he taught at the University of East Anglia in the UK, where he also completed his PhD, and at the University of British Columbia in Canada. His book Historical Film: A Critical Introduction was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2013. His research has also been published in various academic journals including The Historical Journal of Film and Television, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Journal of British Cinema and Television, Exemplaria, and the Journal of American Studies of Turkey.

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