Biography and History in Film

Thomas S. Freeman is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Essex, UK. He is the co-author of Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: the Making of Foxe’s ‘Book of Martyrs’ (2011).  He is also the co-editor of The Tudors and Stuarts on Film (2008), and four other volumes on early modern English history.David L. Smith is Fellow, Director of Studies in History, and Graduate Tutor at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK.  His books include Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c. 1640-1649 (1994), A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707 (1998), The Stuart Parliaments, 1603-1689 (1999), and (with Patrick Little) Parliaments and Politics during the Cromwellian Protectorate (2007).

• ‘Movies that exist merely to tell entertaining lies’?: Biography on Film; Thomas S. Freeman and David L. Smith.- Filming a Legend: Anthony Mann’s El Cid (1961); Thomas S. Freeman.- Joan of Arc through medieval eyes and modern lenses: Dreyer 1928 and Bresson 1962; Elisabeth van Houts.- Blood, lust and the Virgin Queen: Helen Mirren’s Elizabeth I; William B. Robison.- Shakespeare in Love and Anonymous: Two Films More or Less About Shakespeare; David Bevington.- That Hamilton Woman (1941); Samantha A. Cavell.- Twelve Years a Slave and the ‘Unthinkability’ of Enslaved Autobiography; Sean M. Kelley.- Abraham Lincoln and National Reconciliation in Lincoln; Kate Masur.- The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960); David L. Smith.- Infectious Enthusiasm: The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936); Bart K. Holland.- Filming and Formatting the Explorer Hero: Captain Scott and Ealing Studios’ Scott of the Antarctic (1948); Klaus Dodds.- Inside JFK’s White House: the Myth of John F. Kennedy and Thirteen Days (2000); Andrew Priest.- Power and its Loss in The Iron Lady; Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Jon Lawrence.- Index