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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The Thatcher government ' s denial of aid for British film production merely
compounded the long - term problems of a ... This colonisation holds both for the
pre - eminence of American films in British movie theatres and on television , and
for ...
The cultural status of British films in the mid - 1980s was relatively high , with
commentators celebrating what they saw as a revival of British production . This
celebration was in part an acknowledgement that British films were once more
forces ...
No doubt the theories of Third Cinema , particularly Teshome Gabriel ' s
application of the concept to the films of Sembene Ousmane and Haile Gerima ,
opened up the possibilities for an alternative film practice in Britain . As Reece
Auguiste ...
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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 |