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Analyses de la représentation du siècle des lumières à l'écran. Dans l'entrecroisement des voix de spécialistes du septième art et du XVIIIe siècle, des réponses sont apportées à cet "acte d'appropriation de la postérité" dont parle J.-M. Goulemot. Ces études mettent en évidence la manière complexe et diverse dont le cinéma repense le passé tout en parlant du présent.

Eighteenth century in motion pictures --- Film adaptations --- Dix-huitième siècle au cinéma --- Adaptations cinématographiques --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique

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This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television’s fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century. Grounded in cultural studies, film studies, and adaptation theory, the book examines how these works represented the eighteenth century to assuage anxieties about values, systems, and institutions at the start of a new millennium. The first two chapters reveal how films like Gulliver’s Travels (2010) or the remake of Poldark (2015) use history to establish the direct relationship between the eighteenth century and the twenty-first. The final chapters examine pairs of productions for how they address and legitimate different aspects of contemporary ideology such as attitudes toward race and gender, or the connection between technological and social progress.

Eighteenth century in motion pictures. --- Film criticism. --- Television criticism. --- Motion picture criticism --- Motion pictures --- Moving-picture criticism --- Criticism --- Dramatic criticism --- Evaluation --- Motion pictures-Great Britain. --- Motion pictures-United States. --- Film genres. --- Literature, Modern-18th century. --- British Cinema and TV. --- American Cinema and TV. --- Genre. --- Eighteenth-Century Literature. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Motion pictures—Great Britain. --- Motion pictures—United States. --- Literature, Modern—18th century.