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Staging the Settlement: S hekhar K apur and the Parliament of 1559
Author(s) -
Dean David
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
parliamentary history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.14
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1750-0206
pISSN - 0264-2824
DOI - 10.1111/1750-0206.12116
Subject(s) - settlement (finance) , depiction , parliament , movie theater , representation (politics) , reading (process) , value (mathematics) , history , subject (documents) , sociology , law , art , literature , political science , art history , economics , computer science , politics , library science , finance , payment , machine learning
This article offers an assessment of S hekhar K apur's depiction of the parliamentary making of the E lizabethan settlement in his 1998 film, E lizabeth . The settlement has always been a controversial subject, as indeed have K apur's cinematic stagings of E lizabethan history. After surveying historians' accounts of the settlement, the author subjects the film's settlement sequence to a careful analysis, reading it as cinema as well as history, and argues that, despite a significant number of historical inaccuracies, the film captures much of value as a filmic representation of the past.