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English heritage and heritage film
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by Adrianna Cholewińska
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Anna Sidor
thank you for attention
English heritage and heritage film
characteristics of heritage films
Heritage industry
Critics
literary adaptations of cannonical texts as well as original screenplays
nostalgic and conservative celebration of values and lifestyle of upper or upper middle classes (aristocrats, nobles)
lower classes used as a means to make them more authentic
but they also touch upon those marginalized (female point of view)
the trend started in 1981 with Brideshead Revisited (a TV series based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh) and Chariots of Fire (a film based on facts)
No clear boundries:
-Historical Drama vs History Proper
-Importance of authenticity
Films and television:
-Maketing; Heritage Product Placement
-Quality and dumbing down
View on heritage now and then
Two sides of critics
-Narrowing of heritage boundries
-Democritising
Historical Adaptation from the classics
-Separate category?
-Medium based od medium
- Mutual cinematic and litarary influence
-Interpretation threat
-Further development of heritage
industry
Merchant Ivory Productions - a film company - is mentioned as one of the leading historical period drama producers
Heritage Films
heritage films - definition
offer some version of English history and culture, explore Englishness
present 'last of old England' e.g. the end of Empire, death of liberal England, moral decay of upper classes
social dramas with period settings
some are national epics
but mostly they focus more on personal stories rather than manifest themselves as national narratives
Casting strategies
&
Stars and Character Actors
-who and why ?
Acting styles
- how and why?
Film style: The Aestetics of display
Autorship
"(...) films made in the 1980s and 1990s that either depict some aspects of the English past before the Second World War or are adapted from a canonical English literary texts." A. Higson