| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- 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 |
| Summary |
Offers contemporary context of Britain as a deeply divided society as reflected in film |
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Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
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Motion pictures
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004759
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 2007- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007010853
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474481045 |
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1474481043 |
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