William Wallace

William Wallace

Author: Graeme Morton

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-10-08

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0748685642

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A deconstruction of the national biography and mythology of William Wallace. Freed from the historian's bedrock of empiricism by a lack of corroborative sources, the biography of this short-lived late-medieval patriot has long been incorporated into the ideology of nationalism.


Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema

Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema

Author: James MacDowell

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-11-28

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0748680209

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This wide-ranging investigation probes traditional associations between the 'happy ending' and homogeneity, closure, 'unrealism', and ideological conservatism, testing widespread assumptions against the evidence offered by a range of classical and contemp