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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... realism ' . Their attitude reflected an old shibboleth and plaint of the British cinema establishment , both in production and reception , best summed up by Michael Balcon's programmatic preference for ' realism ' over ' tinsel'.5 This ...
... realism ' . Their attitude reflected an old shibboleth and plaint of the British cinema establishment , both in production and reception , best summed up by Michael Balcon's programmatic preference for ' realism ' over ' tinsel'.5 This ...
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... realism but of magic realism . Refusing the glossy fetishes of simplified nostalgia , magic realism introduces ' his- tory with holes , perforated history ' ( Jameson 1990 : 130 ) : it insists on the struc- tural disjunction between ...
... realism but of magic realism . Refusing the glossy fetishes of simplified nostalgia , magic realism introduces ' his- tory with holes , perforated history ' ( Jameson 1990 : 130 ) : it insists on the struc- tural disjunction between ...
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... realism . The term ' challenge ' I use advisedly , since no reasonable critic can maintain that realism was seen off in the British cinema of the Thatcher years of 1979-90 . Geoff Brown suggests that British cinema of the 1990s ...
... realism . The term ' challenge ' I use advisedly , since no reasonable critic can maintain that realism was seen off in the British cinema of the Thatcher years of 1979-90 . Geoff Brown suggests that British cinema of the 1990s ...
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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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