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British cinema and a divided nation
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'British Cinema and a Divided Nation' examines representations of the nation found within contemporary British cinema, against a backdrop of rising political tensions and deepening social divisions...
'British Cinema and a Divided Nation' examines representations of the nation found within contemporary British cinema, against a backdrop of rising political tensions and deepening social divisions following the 'Brexit' referendum of June 2016.
Details
- Creator
- John White
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021
- ©2022
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (262 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781399513265, 1399513265, 9781474481045, 1474481051, 1474481035, 9781474481021, 1474481043, 9781474481052, 1474481027
- OCLC
- on1312725739, on1292704669
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Popular Culture and a Shared National Perspective -- Part I. Reinterpreting Pre-twentieth- century British History -- CHAPTER 2. What Chance Sisterhood under Patriarchy? Mary Queen of Scots ( Josie Rourke, 2018) -- CHAPTER 3. What Would it Be to “Turn the World Upside Down”? Fanny Lye Deliver’d (Thomas Clay, 2019) -- CHAPTER 4. Politics in “The Corridors of Power” Then (and Now): The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018) -- CHAPTER 5. Class as the Crucial Division in UK Society: Peterloo (Mike Leigh, 2018) -- Part II. Rehearsing Twentieth-century British History -- CHAPTER 6. One-nation Conservatism 1920s/2020s: Downton Abbey (Michael Engler, 2019) -- CHAPTER 7. Defending this “Island Nation”: Darkest Hour ( Joe Wright, 2017) and Churchill (Jonathan Teplitzky, 2017) -- CHAPTER 8. Identity Politics: Where Hands Touch (Amma Asante, 2018) and A United Kingdom (Asante, 2016) -- CHAPTER 9. Colonialism and the Reshaping of History: Viceroy’s House (Gurinder Chadha, 2017) -- Part III. Re-presenting Britain in the Twenty-first Century -- CHAPTER 10. Educated Elites and Plebeians: The Sense of an Ending (Ritesh Batra, 2017) and Daphne (Peter Mackie Burns, 2017) -- CHAPTER 11. Migration in an Age of Ideological Confrontation: God’s Own Country (Francis Lee, 2017) -- CHAPTER 12. Rural Poverty: Dark River (Clio Barnard, 2017) and The Levelling (Hope Dickson Leach, 2016) -- CHAPTER 13. Urban Poverty: Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach, 2019) -- CHAPTER 14. Conclusion: Liberal Consensus Politics, Economics, and Class -- Bibliography -- Index