Description Rule, Britannia surveys the British biopic, a genre crucial to understanding how National cinema engages with the collective experience and values of its intended audience.
Sanders), all published by SUNY Press..
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Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor (coedited with David Boyd); and Hitchcock\'s Moral Gaze (coedited with Pettey and Steven M.
His books include Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity (coedited with William H.
Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of the World Cinema program at Clemson University.
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His books include Film Noir and InterNational Noir, both coedited with Palmer.
Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona.
About the Author Homer B.
Filmic depictions of such personalities as Elizabeth I, Victoria, George VI, Elizabeth II, Margaret Thatcher, Iris Murdoch, and Jack the Ripper are covered.
They explore the critical and historiographical issues raised by the biopic, demonstrating that celebration of conventional virtue is not the genre\'s only natural subject.
The contributors engage with the vexed concept of British nationality, especially as this sense of collective belonging is problematized by the ethnically oriented alternatives of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish nations.
Offering a provocative take on an aspect of filmmaking with profound cultural significance, the volume focuses on how screen biographies of prominent figures in British history and culture can be understood as involved, if unofficially, in the shaping and promotion of an ever-protean National identity.
Description Rule, Britannia surveys the British biopic, a genre crucial to understanding how National cinema engages with the collective experience and values of its intended audience
