Contents
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: Retrovisions: Historical Makeovers in Film and Literature
2. 'No Man's Elizabeth': The Virgin Queen in Recent Films
3. Shakespeare in Love and the End(s) of History
4. Reflections on Sex, Shakespeare and Nostalgia in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night
5. Black Rams Tupping White Ewes: Race vs. Gender in the Final Scene of Six Othellos
6. Cool Intentions: The Literary Classic, the Teenpic and the 'Chick Flick'
7. Peter Watkins's Culloden and the Alternative Form in Historical Filmmaking
8. Mrs Brown's Mourning and Mr King's Madness: Royal Crisis on Screen
9. The Grandfathers' War: Re-imagining World War I in British Novels and Films of the 1990s
10. 'Charm, Bowler, Umbrella, Leather Boots': Remaking The Avengers
11. Forbidden Planet and the Retrospective Attribution of Intentions