| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: documenting the Renaissance / Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete -- The network king: recreating Henry VIII for a global television audience / Ramona Wray -- Breaking Shakespeare's image in late Spanish drama and film / Jesús Tronch Pérez -- The touch of man on woman: dramatizing identity in The return of Martin Guerre / John O'Brien -- 'Welcome to Babylon': performing and screening the English revolution / Jerome de Groot -- The cinematic treatment of early modern witch trials / James Sharpe -- The golem, or the Communist 'what you will' / Martin Procházka -- Horrible Shakespearean histories: performing the Renaissance with and for children / Kate Chedgzoy -- Mark Rylance, Henry V and 'Original practices' at Shakespeare's Globe: history refashioned / Christie Carson -- 'There is so much to see in Rome': the cinematic materialities of Martin Luther's Reformation / Conor Smyth -- The pageant of history: staging the local past, 1905-39 / Michael Dobson -- Private lives and public conflicts: the English Renaissance on Film, 1998-2010 / Andrew Higson -- Epilogue: documentary reflections / Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete |
| Summary |
Over the last one hundred years, many of the events and personalities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences via a variety of visual media. This collection, for the first time, examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries, feature films, pageantry, theatre and popular culture in a range of cultural and linguistic guises. Filming and Performing Renaissance History opens up wider avenues of interpretive opportunity and substitutes a more generous, nuanced acknowledgement of the ways in which the 'Renaissance' is made to signify across disciplines and in relation to a whole series of events and personalities. Accessing the Renaissance in this fashion generates a genuine sense of the modalities of historical representation, of what the Renaissance 'means' and of how its meanings have been negotiated in modernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Renaissance in motion pictures.
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Historical films -- History and criticism
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Documentary films -- History and criticism
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Renaissance on television.
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Renaissance in literature.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Performing Arts.
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Documentary films
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Historical films
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Renaissance in literature
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Renaissance in motion pictures
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Renaissance on television
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Renaissance
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Film.
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Historischer Film.
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Dokumentarfilm.
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Fernsehen.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burnett, Mark Thornton.
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Streete, Adrian.
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| ISBN |
9780230299429 |
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0230299423 |
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