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The Churchill myths / Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz, Richard Toye.
LIBRA DA566.9.C5 F54 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fielding, Steven, 1961- author.
- Schwarz, Bill, 1951- author.
- Toye, Richard, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Influence.
- Churchill, Winston.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--In mass media.
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
- European Union--Great Britain.
- European Union.
- Collective memory.
- Great Britain.
- Collective memory--Political aspects--Great Britain.
- Political campaigns--Great Britain.
- Political campaigns.
- Great Britain--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to bring him back from the dead, capturing and explaining the significance of the various Churchill myths to Britain's history and current politics. The authors look at Churchill's portrayal in social memory. They demonstrate the ways in which politicians have often used the idea of Churchill as a means of self-validation - using him to show themselves as tough and honest players. They show the man dramatized in film and television - an onscreen persona that is often the product of a gratuitous mixing of fact and fantasy, one deliberately shaped to meet the preferences of the presumed audience. They discuss his legacy in light of the Brexit debate - showing how public figures on both sides of the Leave/Remain debate were able to use elements of Churchill's words and character to argue for their own point-of-view.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: The Meaning of Myths
- History and the Churchill Myths
- Brexit and the Churchill Myths
- The Principles of the Book
- 1. Brexit May 1940
- Digital Pasts
- Men of Destiny
- Brexit May 1940
- Mythic Churchill
- England's Populism: 1940
- England's Populism: Brexit
- 2. The Churchill Syndrome
- The Battle for Churchill's Reputation
- Bulldog
- The Special Relationship
- Between Europe and the Open Sea
- Attack from the Right-Flank
- Puffing on an Invisible Cigar
- Boom or Bust?
- The Changing Face of British Nostalgia
- 3. Persistence and Change in Churchill's Mythic Memory
- Precedents and Parallels
- Celebrating the National Icon
- A Transadantic Churchill
- The Long Road to Young Winston
- Baiting the Myth
- The Great Man
- The Reassert ion of a Deeper Myth
- A Confusion of Churchills.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198851960
- 9780198851967
- OCLC:
- 1114560714
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