TY - BOOK ID - 15995224 TI - Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film and Television, 2000–2015 PY - 2017 SN - 3319562673 3319562665 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Eighteenth century in motion pictures. KW - Film criticism. KW - Television criticism. KW - Motion picture criticism KW - Motion pictures KW - Moving-picture criticism KW - Criticism KW - Dramatic criticism KW - Evaluation KW - Motion pictures-Great Britain. KW - Motion pictures-United States. KW - Film genres. KW - Literature, Modern-18th century. KW - British Cinema and TV. KW - American Cinema and TV. KW - Genre. KW - Eighteenth-Century Literature. KW - Genre films KW - Genres, Film KW - Motion picture genres KW - Plots, themes, etc. KW - Motion pictures—Great Britain. KW - Motion pictures—United States. KW - Literature, Modern—18th century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15995224 AB - 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. ER -