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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Jarman and Greenaway both set out to make films within the visual arts tradition .
The dominant painters in Jarman ' s world were gay - David Hockney and Patrick
Procktor . He was also close to Ossie Clarke on the fashion scene , which ...
The publication of Laura Mulvey ' s article , ' Visual Pleasure and Narrative
Cinema ' in Screen ( 1975 ) , helped open debate about the controlling masculine
gaze associated with Hollywood film and its effects upon spectators . While
notions ...
Under the sign of suffering , the film text stands in a relation to both realism and to
the visual style of Caravaggio ' s paintings . In reproducing scenes from the
painter ' s canon the film , rather than simply duplicating the originals , gives the ...
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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 |