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Acts of enclosure: Historical media and the privatization of the past

Media, Culture & Society

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Abstract

Media, Culture & Society, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 761-777, May 2026.
This article examines how historical narratives in contemporary film and television have become subject to new forms of privatization. Drawing an analogy with the enclosure movement that converted common agricultural land into private property in early ...