Fires Were Started: British Cinema and ThatcherismLester D. Friedman Wallflower, 2006 - Počet stran: 341 Fires Were Started is a provocative analysis of the responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and it represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema. This second edition includes revised and updated contributions from some of the leading scholars of British cinema, including Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen and Manthia Diawara. The book discuss prominent filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg and Stephen Frears, it also explores some lesser known but equally important territory such as the work of Black British filmmakers, the Leeds Animation Workshop and Channel 4's Film on Four. Films discussed include Distant Voices, Still Lives, My Beautiful Launderette, Chariots of Fire and Drowning by Numbers. |
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... Hollywood's sprawling studios eventually lured performers such as Charlie Chaplin , Richard Burton , Sean Connery , David Niven , Robert Donat , Daniel Day Lewis , Michael Caine , Jeremy Irons , Vanessa Redgrave , Malcolm McDowell ...
... Hollywood's sprawling studios eventually lured performers such as Charlie Chaplin , Richard Burton , Sean Connery , David Niven , Robert Donat , Daniel Day Lewis , Michael Caine , Jeremy Irons , Vanessa Redgrave , Malcolm McDowell ...
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... Hollywood domination . This colonisation holds both for the pre - eminence of American films in British movie theatres and on television , and for Hollywood's success at weaning away many of Britain's top directors ( for example , Alan ...
... Hollywood domination . This colonisation holds both for the pre - eminence of American films in British movie theatres and on television , and for Hollywood's success at weaning away many of Britain's top directors ( for example , Alan ...
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... Hollywood melodrama , a connection that , despite its importance for understanding this film- maker's work , seems strangely unexplored . In the Hollywood melodrama , as in The Rainbow and Russell's cinema generally , social and ...
... Hollywood melodrama , a connection that , despite its importance for understanding this film- maker's work , seems strangely unexplored . In the Hollywood melodrama , as in The Rainbow and Russell's cinema generally , social and ...
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Thatcherite Politics and the British Film of the 1980s | 15 |
Modernism in the British Films of the Thatcher Era | 30 |
The New British Cinema | 45 |
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Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism Lester D. Friedman Náhled není k dispozici. - 1993 |
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