Fires were started : British cinema and Thatcherism
'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. It represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema
Aufsatzsammlung
xxiv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781904764724, 9781904764717, 190476472X, 1904764711
62761810
The empire strikes out: an American perspective on the British film industry / Lester D. Friedman
The religion of the market: Thatcherite politics and the British film of the 1980s / Leonard Quart
The last New Wave: modernism in the British films of the Thatcher era / Peter Wollen
Images for sale: the 'new' British cinema / Thomas Elsaesser
History with holes: Channel 4 television films of the 1980s / Paul Giles
The repression of communities: visual representations of Northern Ireland during the Thatcher years / Brian McIlroy
Re-presenting the national past: nostalgia and pastiche in the heritage film / Andrew Higson
Free from the apron strings: representations of mothers in the maternal British state / Mary Desjardins
Power and territory: the emergence of black British film collectives / Manthia Diawara
Encounters with Thatcherism: four women filmmakers / Deborah Tudor. Women's independent cinema: the case of Leeds Animation Workshop / Antonia Lant
The body politic: Ken Russell in the 1980s / Barry Keith Grant
'Everyone's an American now': Thatcherite ideology in the films of Nicolas Roeg / Jim Leach
Insurmountable difficulties and moments of ecstasy: crossing class, ethnic and sexual barriers in the films of Stephen Frears / Susan Torrey Barber
No such thing as society: television and the apocalypse / Sean O'Sullivan
The masochistic fix: gender oppression in the films of Terence Davies / Tony Williams
Local focus, global frame: Ken Loach and the cinema of dispossession / James F. English
Allegories of Thatcherism: Peter Greenaway's films of the 1980s / Michael Walsh
Private practice, public health: the politics of sickness and the films of Derek Jarman / Chris Lippard and Guy Johnson
Low hopes: Mike Leigh meets Margaret Thatcher / David Sterritt
Previous edition: London: UCL, 1993