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The Cinematic Eighteenth Century Srividhya Swaminathan

The Cinematic Eighteenth Century By Srividhya Swaminathan

The Cinematic Eighteenth Century by Srividhya Swaminathan

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This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space.

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The Cinematic Eighteenth Century: History, Culture, and Adaptation by Srividhya Swaminathan

This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The Martian) to historical fiction on the subjects of slavery (Belle), piracy (Crossbones and Black Sails), monarchy (The Madness of King George and The Libertine), print culture (Blackadder and National Treasure), and the role of women (Marie Antoinette, The Duchess, and Outlander). This interdisciplinary collection draws from film theory and literary theory to discuss how film and television allows for critical re-visioning as well as revising of the cultural concepts in literary and extra-literary writing about the historical period.

About Srividhya Swaminathan

Srividhya Swaminathan is Professor of English at LIU Brooklyn, USA. Her primary field of research is the rhetoric of eighteenth-century slavery studies and social movements. Her monograph, Debating the Slave Trade (Ashgate 2009), and co-edited collection, Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination (Ashgate 2013), engage with slavery in a transatlantic context.

Steven W. Thomas is Associate Professor of English at Wagner College, USA, where he teaches American literature, theory, and film studies. He has published several scholarly essays about the transatlantic eighteenth century and in 2016, he was a Fulbright Scholar in the graduate film program at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Representing and Repositioning the Eighteenth Century on Screen

1. Fashionable Failures: Ghosting Female Desires on the Big Screen

(Ula Lukszo Klein)

2. Portrait of the Queen as a Celebrity: Marie Antoinette on Screen, a disappearing Act (1934-2012)

(Dorothee Polanz)

3. The King on the Screen

(Elizabeth Kraft)

4. I have you in my eye, sir: The Spectacle of Kingship in The Madness of King George

(Jennifer Preston Wilson)

5. Blackadder: Satirizing the Century of Satire

(Sarah B. Stein and Robert Vork)

6. Disney's National Treasure, the Declaration of Independence, and the Erasure of Print from the American Revolution

(Colin Ramsey)

7. How to Be a Woman in the Highlands: A Feminist Portrayal of Scotland in Outlander

(Courtney A. Hoffman)

8. The King of Mars: The Martian's Scientific Empire and Robinson Crusoe

(Kyle Pivetti)

9. The New Cinematic Piracy: Crossbones and Black Sails

(Srividhya Swaminathan)

10. Sex, Sisterhood, and the Cinema: Sense and Sensibility(s) in Conversation

(Jodi L. Wyett)

11. Cinematic Slavery and the Romance of Belle

(Steven W. Thomas)

Additional information

NLS9780367887377
9780367887377
0367887371
The Cinematic Eighteenth Century: History, Culture, and Adaptation by Srividhya Swaminathan
Srividhya Swaminathan
Routledge Advances in Film Studies
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2019-12-10
196
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