essay analysing British heritage cinema by examining the films A Room With A View and Howard’s End. Include some history on how heritage cinema came to be popular in the 1980s during the Margaret Thatcher era (include the term Thatcherism) and what heritage cinema means. Examine the themes and visual styles in both films, as well as the costumes and set/scenery used in the films. Also examine how the films represent a sense of nostalgia for the ways of the Victorian Britain of the past.
Mainly use these three references throughout the paper:
-Andrew Higson: The Heritage Film and British Cinema, from Higson (ed.), Dissolving Views
-John Hill: The Heritage Film: Issues and Debates, from Hill, British Cinema in the 1980s.
-James Chapman: The British Are Coming, from Chapman, Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film (2005)
Use this list of books/articles as additional references throughout the paper (along with any other valuable references you may find):
-Bruzzi, Stella: Undressing Cinema: Clothes, Identities, Films (Routledge, 1997)
-Chapman, James: Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film (I.B. Taurus 2005)
-Corner, John & Sylvia Harvey (ed.): Enterprise and Heritage: Cross-currents of National Culture (Routledge 1991)
-Friedman, Lester (ed.): British Cinema and Thatcherism: Fires Were Started (Routledge 1993)
-Higson, Andrew: Re-presenting the National Past: Nostalgia and Pastiche in the Heritage Film, from Lester Friedman (ed.), British Cinema and Thatcherism (1993)
-Higson, Andrew: The Heritage Film and British Cinema, from Andrew Higson (ed.) Dissolving Views (1996)
-Higson, Andrew: English Heritage, English Cinema (Oxford University Press 2003)
-Hill, John: British Films of the 1980s (Clarendon Press 1999)
-Monk, Claire & Amy Sergeant: British Historical Cinema (Routledge 2002)
-Monk, Claire: Heritage Film Audiences: Period Films and Contemporary Audiences in the UK (EUP, 2012)
-Pidduck, Julianne: Contemporary Costume FIlm: Space, Place and the Past (BFI, 2007)
-Powrie, Phil: On the threshold between past and present: alternative heritage, in Ashby and Higson (eds) British Cinema, Past and Present (2000)
-Sergeant, Amy: Making and selling heritage culture: style and authenticity in historical fictions on film and television, in Ashby and Higson (eds.) British Cinema, Past and Present (2000)
-Vidal, Belen: Heritage Film: Nation, Genre and Representation
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