Fires were started : British cinema and Thatcherism.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2006. |
| Description: | xxiv, 341 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6222396 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Contributors
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Empire Strikes Out: An American Perspective on the British Film Industry
- Part I. Cultural Contexts and Cinematic Constructions
- 1. The Religion of the Market: Thatcherite Politics and the British Film of the 1980s
- 2. The Last New Wave: Modernism in the British Films of the Thatcher Era
- 3. Images for Sale: The 'New' British Cinema
- 4. History with Holes: Channel 4 Television Films of the 1980s
- 5. The Repression of Communities: Visual Representations of Northern Ireland during the Thatcher Years
- 6. Re-presenting the National Past: Nostalgia and Pastiche in the Heritage Film
- 7. Free from the Apron Strings: Representations of Mothers in the Maternal British State
- Part II. Filmmakers During the Thatcher Era
- 8. Power and Territory: The Emergence of Black British Film Collectives
- 9. Encounters with Thatcherism: Four Women Filmmakers
- 10. Women's Independent Cinema: The Case of Leeds Animation Workshop
- 11. The Body Politic: Ken Russell in the 1980s
- 12. 'Everyone's an American Now': Thatcherite Ideology in the Films of Nicolas Roeg
- 13. Insurmountable Difficulties and Moments of Ecstasy: Crossing Class, Ethnic and Sexual Barriers in the Films of Stephen Frears
- 14. No Such Thing as Society: Television and the Apocalypse
- 15. The Masochistic Fix: Gender Oppression in the Films of Terence Davies
- 16. Local Focus, Global Frame: Ken Loach and the Cinema of Dispossession
- 17. Allegories of Thatcherism: Peter Greenaway's Films of the 1980s
- 18. Private Practice, Public Health: The Politics of Sickness and the Films of Derek Jarman
- 19. Low Hopes: Mike Leigh Meets Margaret Thatcher
- Index
