Castles and costumes: when reality becomes fiction and fiction inspires travelling
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[1] Universidade do Minho
Universidade do Minho
Braga (São José de São Lázaro), Portugal
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- Localización: Destination branding heritage and authenticity / Rubén Camilo Lois González (ed. lit.), Francisco Dias (ed. lit.), Xosé Manuel Santos Solla (ed. lit.), Pilar Taboada De Zuñiga (ed. lit.), Joao Paulo Conceição Silva Jorge (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-84-695-3961-3, págs. 843-853
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The term “heritage film” has kept appearing associated to a certain idea of film, either feature film or television series, mainly British. It’s a label that highlights the possibility of the existence of a genre not very different from the costume or historical drama, but with its own peculiarities, that started to arise in the 1980s in the British press and academia. With its elaborate costumes, sets and properties featured in order to capture the ambiance of a particular era (and a particular class), England is usually portrayed in a nostalgic and conservative manner. The first examples of heritage films were the Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire (1981), and the television serial Brideshead Revisited (1981), considered one of the greatest British television dramas of all time. But many others have appeared since then, being the recent and popular Downton Abbey (2010) one of the latest examples and one which has promoted “heritage travel” in England thanks to the way it showcases the estates, gardens and history that inspired this gorgeously shot British period drama. This paper will address the role of the heritage film in the consolidation of the awareness of the British national heritage and its vital importance in helping to promote a certain idea of Englishness. These films were also very important for the British tourism industry, given that the viewing of such films has increased the number of visits to their filming locations, in some cases exponentially.
