Description: Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.
Brief description: Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. He is the editor of several books, including Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (with R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders) and Rule Brittannia! The Biopic and British National Identity (with R. Barton Palmer), both also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"...Rule, Britannia! offer[s] thought-challenging case studies that discuss a wide range of theoretical questions, opening up a large spectrum of valuable leads for research on both the biopic genre in general and its specificity in British film." - Cercles
"This exceptional collection offers new ways of looking at these films as films, as well as a fresh approach to British history as a cultural whole." - Wheeler Winston Dixon