Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Retrovisions: Historical Makeovers in Film and Literature -- Notes -- 2. 'No Man's Elizabeth': The Virgin Queen in Recent Films -- Notes -- 3. Shakespeare in Love and the End(s) of History -- Notes -- 4. Reflections on Sex, Shakespeare and Nostalgia in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night -- Film, Nostalgia and Shakespeare -- Gender Trouble in Illyria: Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night -- Notes -- 5. Black Rams Tupping White Ewes: Race vs. Gender in the Final Scene of Six Othellos -- Notes -- 6. Cool Intentions: The Literary Classic, the Teenpic and the 'Chick Flick' -- Notes -- 7. Peter Watkins's Culloden and the Alternative Form in Historical Filmmaking -- Notes -- 8. Mrs Brown's Mourning and Mr King's Madness: Royal Crisis on Screen -- Monarchs in History -- Harmless History? -- Which Generation? -- Notes -- 9. The Grandfathers' War: Re-imagining World War I in British Novels and Films of the 1990s -- Notes -- 10. 'Charm, Bowler, Umbrella, Leather Boots': Remaking The Avengers -- Notes -- 11. Forbidden Planet and the Retrospective Attribution of Intentions -- Notes -- Index.