British Cinema and a Divided Nation

ISBN-13: 9781474481021 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 264 str.

John White

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List of Figures; 1: Introduction: popular culture and a shared national perspective; PART I: Reinterpreting pre-twentieth century British history; 2: What chance sisterhood under patriarchy: Mary Queen of Scots (Josie Rourke, 2018)?; 3: What would it be to ‘turn the world upside down’: Fanny Lye Deliver'd (Thomas Clay, 2019)?; 4: Politics in ‘the corridors of power’ then (and now): The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018); 5: Class as the crucial division in UK society: Peterloo (Mike Leigh, 2018); PART II: Rehearsing twentieth century British history; 6: One-nation Conservatism 1920s/2020s: Downton Abbey (Michael Engler, 2019); 7: Defending this ‘island nation’: Darkest Hour (Joe Wright, 2017) and Churchill (Jonathan Teplitzky, 2017); 8: Identity politics: Where Hands Touch (Amma Asante, 2018) and A United Kingdom (Asante, 2016); 9: Colonialism and the reshaping of history: Viceroy's House (Gurinder Chadha, 2017); PART III: Re-presenting Britain in the twenty-first century; 10: Educated elites and plebeians: The Sense of an Ending (Ritesh Batra, 2017) and Daphne (Peter Mackie Burns, 2017); 11: Migration in an age of ideological confrontation: God's Own Country (Francis Lee, 2017); 12: Rural poverty: Dark River (Clio Barnard, 2017) and The Levelling (Hope Dickson Leach, 2016); 13: Urban poverty: Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach, 2019); 14: Conclusion: liberal consensus politics, economics and class; Bibliography; Index