Reframing Margaret Thatcher : Genre, Form, and the Making of Post-Thatcherism in British Film and TV.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Espinoza Garrido, Felipe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thatcher, Margaret, 1925-2013.

Motion pictures, British.

Television programs.

Local Subjects:

Thatcher, Margaret, 1925-2013.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Reframing Margaret Thatcher charts how contemporary British film and TV revisit and rewrite the clichéd Iron Lady. It demonstrates how the apparent depoliticization of British film makes visible new relations between genre, cinematic form, and imaginations of the past.

Contents:

Front matter

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: ormations of post-Thatcherism in British film and TV

Myth and media: Remembrance in The Iron Lady

The form of absence: Tracing Thatcher in This Is England

The limits of trauma: Doomsday's post-Thatcherism

9 Dead Gay Guys: Rethinking queer Thatcher, rethinking queer cinema

Deconstructing 'The Six Thatchers'

Conclusion: The politics of post-Thatcherism

References

Media

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5261-8122-3

1-5261-8124-X

OCLC:

1590085370