Fires Were Started: British Cinema and ThatcherismFires 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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Janice Winship has traced the debates about women ' s power in postwar Britain
, arguing that the dominant discourse tried to reconcile a notion of ' we the nation '
with ' we women ' through constructing peace as a battle only women ...
Janice Winship has traced the debates about women's power in postwar Britain,
arguing that the dominant discourse tried to reconcile a notion of 'we the nation'
with 'we women' through constructing peace as a battle only women (especially ...
This allows her films to counteract the mythological representations of women
circulated through dominant cinema . Pratibha Parmar and Ngozi Onwurah work
in the avantgarde mode , carrying the ideas of counter - cinema further away from
...
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Introduction | 1 |
Thatcherite Politics and the British Film of the 1980s | 15 |
Modernism in the British Films of the Thatcher Era | 30 |
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Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism Lester D. Friedman Náhled není k dispozici. - 1993 |