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- Title
Re-presenting History: Ivanhoe on the Screen.
- Authors
Srebnick, Walter
- Abstract
The article presents a critical analysis of the motion picture "Ivanhoe." Released in 1952, Ivanhoe followed the classical Hollywood formula of adapting a revered novel to the screen. The movie has been adapted from novel. The actual title of the film in the opening credits is, in fact "Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe." The film was in part Hollywood's response to the competition that television posed in 1952, exploiting the visual and narrative sweep and the color that the newer medium could not yet bring into people's homes. The film contains four main narrative actions, all centered around its hero, the Saxon knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe. For the film, Torquilstone, the Norman castle where the film's major battle takes place, was built from scratch, and the principal male actors and myriad extras were coached in the arts of medieval warfare. In the novel, Rebecca is a strong critic of chivalry, while in the film she is its most ardent supporter. Rebecca's father Isaac comes off much better in the film than he does in the novel.
- Subjects
IVANHOE (Film); MOTION pictures; FICTION; CASTLES; CHIVALRY; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 1999, Vol 29, Issue 1/2, p46
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/flm.1999.a395987