Revolutionary Romanticism and Cinema : Country, Land, People

Dave, Paul

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2020/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 128 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783030596453

Full Description

This book stages an encounter between romanticism in post-war and contemporary cinema and trends in historical materialism associated with revolutionary romantic historiography. Focused primarily on British cinema and examples of Hollywood cinema with significant relationships to British and English culture and history, it is loosely configured around three key emblematic motifs - country, land, people - that are simultaneously core values and rallying cries of distinctive varieties of conservative, restitutionist and revolutionary romanticism. The book seeks to establish the continuing relevance of the revolutionary romantic critique of capitalist modernity to contemporary political concerns such as the fate of the proletariat, populism, Brexit post-nationalism, ecocide and the Anthropocene.

Contents

1.Introduction.- 2.Conservative Romanticism and the Country: Powell and Pressburger.- 3.Restitutionist Romanticism: Searching for Lost Lands.- 4.Romantic Revolutionary Historiography: The People and the Commons.