Filming and Performing Renaissance History

Burnett, M. T. and Streete, A. (Eds.) (2011) Filming and Performing Renaissance History. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230299429

Abstract

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.

• Item Type: Edited Books
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Streete, Professor Adrian
• Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• ISBN: 9780230299429

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