British Cinema and a Divided Nation / / John White.
Offers contemporary context of Britain as a deeply divided society as reflected in filmAnalyses Britain’s contested understandings of its past, present and futureExamines the various ways recent mainstream films have approached the concept of nationhoodExplores the ways in which the contest of ideol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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