Imperium nie trzęsie się w posadach. Neo-heritage w kinie i telewizji brytyjskiej XXI wieku
The Empire Is Not Shaking At Its Foundations. Neo-Heritage In British Cinema And Television Of The 21st Century

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the return of imperial sentiments in British films and TV series of the 21st century, placing them in the tradition of heritage cinema. However, while film-makers from the 1980s and 1990s associated with this trend, for example James Ivory, set the action in the time of the Empire, and did so with a distance, with a certain melancholy and irony, contemporary strategies are changing. Visually and thematically (life of the upper classes) films such as The Time of Darkness and TV series, such as The Crown, are a continuation of the heritage cinema. However, the assessment of the presented world is reoriented. Hence the concept of neo-heritage, whose creators elevate the fictitious (Downton Abbey) and historical (Queen Victoria, Elizabeth II) representatives of ruling classes, manipulating the story and narrative so as to gain for them not only the sympathy of viewers, but also a sense of unique role and social mission fulfilled by these social layers.

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