A Historical Film Analysis

As of the 21st century, the film industry can reassure its audience of its evergrowing popularity and production all around the world. It has become a global stairway to the expansion of a country’s culture, allowing it to be spread worldwide.
For instance, film-makers are now reflecting their respective countries throughout their works, so they can be identified elsewhere by their unique inputs and themes, as renowned foreign cultures. However, it is of professional work to be able to directly spot the hints and the techniques left by the directors for the audience to perceive, especially with the studies and the advanced procedures of filming nowadays. This is why the purpose of this research is to find easier ways for the public to understand

Although, with the never-ending debates about what really constitutes the genre of historical films, Jonathan Stubbs summarises all opinions into one conventional definition that widens the variation of movies. He states that historical films are those who « engage with history » and « construct a relationship to the past ». His researches in « Historical Film : A Critical Introduction » tell us what most communly exposes the audience to a country’s past ; the concept of reenactement enables the public to ‘witness again’ specific events in the past through the act of imaginative re-creation. Following this procedure, and dependently on the producers’ true accuracy to the past, the spectators can watch movies as if they were having history lessons of the films’ home countries. Consequently, not all countries are able to produce such big screenings. Movies produced in Hollywood, being the dominant film industry today, can ultimately host the myths and events of other cultures, thus fooling the

With each period comes the a new lifestyle, from clothes to materials, to chronologically detailed aspects, enabling the spectators to spot the hint. As they go further back in time, the producers pay more attention to the uniqueness of the dress codes of each culture, because back then, every country had a specific style and fashion wasn’t a global as it is nowadays. Films the likes of « Adesuwa » and « Belle » are newly produced and released in the years 2012 and 2013, while hosting events that happened back in the 1750’s and 1800’s. They portray the little details spoken of in the above and are very loyal to the chronology of their spatio temporal guidlines. These careful analysis are key to uncovering the country behind the