British cinema and a divided nation / John White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, John, 1956- author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Great Britain--In motion pictures.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--2007-.

Great Britain--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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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

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 14, 2022).

ISBN:

1-4744-8105-1

1-3995-1326-5

1-4744-8104-3

OCLC:

1292704669