Cultural Memory and National Identity: 'That Hamilton Woman' and 'A Canterbury Tale'

Author / Editor
Györi, Zsolt.

Title
Cultural Memory and National Identity: 'That Hamilton Woman' and 'A Canterbury Tale'

Published
Agnes Pethö, ed. Words and Images on the Screen Language Literature, Moving Pictures (Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 284-99.

Description
Assesses the politics and cultural work of British wartime cinema, including assessment of Michael Powell's and Emeric Pressburger's "A Canterbury Tale" of 1944 as "one of the first 'heritage films'," one that capitalizes on the status of CT as the "sacred text of British cultural memory" and echoes the "Chaucerian vision of community."

Contributor
Pethö, Agnes, ed.

Alternative Title
Words and Images on the Screen Language Literature, Moving Pictures.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General