UID:
almafu_9960963952402883
Format:
1 online resource (262 pages)
ISBN:
1-4744-8105-1
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1-3995-1326-5
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1-4744-8104-3
Series Statement:
Edinburgh scholarship online
Content:
'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.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2021.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Figures --
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CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Popular Culture and a Shared National Perspective --
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Part I. Reinterpreting Pre-twentieth- century British History --
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CHAPTER 2. What Chance Sisterhood under Patriarchy? Mary Queen of Scots ( Josie Rourke, 2018) --
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CHAPTER 3. What Would it Be to “Turn the World Upside Down”? Fanny Lye Deliver’d (Thomas Clay, 2019) --
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CHAPTER 4. Politics in “The Corridors of Power” Then (and Now): The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018) --
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CHAPTER 5. Class as the Crucial Division in UK Society: Peterloo (Mike Leigh, 2018) --
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Part II. Rehearsing Twentieth-century British History --
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CHAPTER 6. One-nation Conservatism 1920s/2020s: Downton Abbey (Michael Engler, 2019) --
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CHAPTER 7. Defending this “Island Nation”: Darkest Hour ( Joe Wright, 2017) and Churchill (Jonathan Teplitzky, 2017) --
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CHAPTER 8. Identity Politics: Where Hands Touch (Amma Asante, 2018) and A United Kingdom (Asante, 2016) --
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CHAPTER 9. Colonialism and the Reshaping of History: Viceroy’s House (Gurinder Chadha, 2017) --
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Part III. Re-presenting Britain in the Twenty-first Century --
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CHAPTER 10. Educated Elites and Plebeians: The Sense of an Ending (Ritesh Batra, 2017) and Daphne (Peter Mackie Burns, 2017) --
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CHAPTER 11. Migration in an Age of Ideological Confrontation: God’s Own Country (Francis Lee, 2017) --
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CHAPTER 12. Rural Poverty: Dark River (Clio Barnard, 2017) and The Levelling (Hope Dickson Leach, 2016) --
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CHAPTER 13. Urban Poverty: Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach, 2019) --
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CHAPTER 14. Conclusion: Liberal Consensus Politics, Economics, and Class --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4744-8103-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4744-8102-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781474481045
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