Cromwell (1970): a God-sent Hero in a Time of Revolution

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Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Júlio Carlos Viana, 1949-
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/11833
Resumo: Three hundred and fifty years after his death Oliver Cromwell remains a highly polemical historical figure producing contradictory assessments of his deeds and beliefs. Cinema is a powerful medium which has developed a controversial relationship with history, especially with the criterion of historical accuracy. It is no wonder that, from the outset, a biopic of Cromwell would give rise to disparate judgements, but the film Cromwell, directed by Ken Hughes and released in 1970, is particularly striking on account of its numerous errors and conscious distortions which this paper aims to analyse. Hughes’s portrayal of Cromwell as a proto-democrat and champion of the rights of the common people owes more to the director’s hidden agenda than to the amassed historical knowledge of the real Oliver Cromwell.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Cromwell (1970): a God-sent Hero in a Time of Revolution
title Cromwell (1970): a God-sent Hero in a Time of Revolution
spellingShingle Cromwell (1970): a God-sent Hero in a Time of Revolution
Ferreira, Júlio Carlos Viana, 1949-
Cromwell
Charles I
Civil Wars
Stuart Age
Film studies
title_short Cromwell (1970): a God-sent Hero in a Time of Revolution
title_full Cromwell (1970): a God-sent Hero in a Time of Revolution
title_fullStr Cromwell (1970): a God-sent Hero in a Time of Revolution
title_full_unstemmed Cromwell (1970): a God-sent Hero in a Time of Revolution
title_sort Cromwell (1970): a God-sent Hero in a Time of Revolution
author Ferreira, Júlio Carlos Viana, 1949-
author_facet Ferreira, Júlio Carlos Viana, 1949-
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ferreira, Júlio Carlos Viana, 1949-
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Cromwell
Charles I
Civil Wars
Stuart Age
Film studies
topic Cromwell
Charles I
Civil Wars
Stuart Age
Film studies
description Three hundred and fifty years after his death Oliver Cromwell remains a highly polemical historical figure producing contradictory assessments of his deeds and beliefs. Cinema is a powerful medium which has developed a controversial relationship with history, especially with the criterion of historical accuracy. It is no wonder that, from the outset, a biopic of Cromwell would give rise to disparate judgements, but the film Cromwell, directed by Ken Hughes and released in 1970, is particularly striking on account of its numerous errors and conscious distortions which this paper aims to analyse. Hughes’s portrayal of Cromwell as a proto-democrat and champion of the rights of the common people owes more to the director’s hidden agenda than to the amassed historical knowledge of the real Oliver Cromwell.
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