TY - BOOK AU - Monk,Claire AU - Sargeant,Amy TI - British historical cinema: the history, heritage, and costume film SN - 0415238099 U1 - 791.436580941 PY - 2002/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Historical films KW - Great Britain KW - History and criticism N1 - Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge; List of illustrations. - Notes on contributors. - Acknowledgements. - 1. Introduction : the past in British cinema / Claire Monk and Amy Sargeant. - 2. Do we need another hero? Ecce Homo and Nelson (1919) / Amy Sargeant. - 3. Death or glory? The Great War in British film / Alan Burton. - 4. Secrets and lies : black histories and British historical films / Stephen Bourne. - 5. 'If the world does not please you, you can change it' : The History of Mr Polly (1949) and The Card (1952) / Tim O' Sullivan. - 6. Cinema, monarchy and the making of heritage : A Queen Is Crowned (1953) / James Chapman. - 7. Camping on the borders : history, identity and Britishness in Carry On costume parodies, 1963-74 / Nicholas J. Cull. - 8. Monkey feathers : defending Zulu (1964) / Sheldon Hall. - 9. Ireland, the past and British cinema : Ryan's Daughter (1970) / Fidelma Farley. - 10. Imperial migrations : reading the Raj cinema of the 1980s / T. Muraleedharan. - 11. Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989) : genre and interpretation / James Quinn And Jane Kingsley-Smith. - 12. The British heritage-film debate revisited / Claire Monk. - 13. The content and the form : invoking 'pastness' in three recent retro films / Amy Sargeant. - 14. Taking liberties with the monarch : the royal bio-pic in the 1990s / Kara Mckechnie. - Selective filmography. - Index ER -