Picturing Cornwall

Landscape, Region and the Moving Image
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-85989-077-9
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

This book explores the history of Cornwall‘s picturing on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark books. Drawing on art history to illuminate the construction of Cornwall in films and television programmes, the book looks at amateur film, newsreels and contemporary film practice as well as drama.

It argues that Cornwall‘s screen identity has been dominated by the romantic coastal edge, leaving the regional interior absent from representation. In turn, the emphasis on the coast in Cornwall‘s screen history has had a significant and ongoing economic impact on the area.New research with an innovative approach, looking at amateur film and newsreels alongside mainstream film and television.  Will appeal to both the academic and the more general reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moseley, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

Introduction: A Journey into Cornwall

1 Landscape, Region and the Moving Image

2 The Outsider and the View: Travel, Tourism and Film

3 Screen Fictions

4 The ‘Real’ Cornwall

5 A Different View

Notes

Filmography

Television Programmes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Moseley, Rachel
Rachel Moseley is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, where she is Head of Department and Director of the Centre for Television History, Heritage and Memory Research. She has published widely on questions of identity in film and television.

Rachel Moseley is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, where she is presently Head of Department and Director of the Centre for Television History, Heritage and Memory Research. She has published widely on questions of identity in film and television.