Explorers on Screen - by Sue Matheson & Cynthia J Miller (Hardcover)

Name: Explorers on Screen - by Sue Matheson & Cynthia J Miller (Hardcover)
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 1006682024
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Explorers on Screen: Adventure!
Author(s): Sue Matheson & Cynthia J Miller
336 Pages
Performing Arts, Film

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About the Book

Focuses on explorers and adventurers on screen as a lens for examining our understandings of race, place, class, imperialism and gender roles.

Book Synopsis

Explorers on Screen: Adventure! Danger! Romance! brings together essays that break new ground on films featuring explorers and adventurers from the Age of Exploration to the present. It focuses on fictional and dramatized representations, rather than biopics, as these create the most interesting reflections of the attitudes, ideals, aspirations and tensions at work in their eras of production and reception.

It provides readers with the conceptual tools to more deeply consider the portrayals of these characters, both fictional and real, and the ways in which they shape and reflect key historical figures and moments. The volume's essays offer interdisciplinary approaches from film studies, history, anthropology, philosophy and literature to bring fresh and complex perspectives to each chapter and the volume as a whole.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W)

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 336

Genre: Performing Arts

Sub-Genre: Film

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Theme: History & Criticism

Format: Hardcover

Author: Sue Matheson & Cynthia J Miller

Language: English

Street Date: June 30, 2026

TCIN: 1006682024

UPC: 9781399532051

Item Number (DPCI): 247-51-8814

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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