Title Thatcher and after : Margaret Thatcher and her afterlife in contemporary culture / edited by Louisa Hadley and Elizabeth Ho

Published Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations Contents The lady's not for turning : new cultural perspectives on Thatcher and Thatcherism / Louisa Hadley and Elizabeth Ho -- pt. 1. Thatcher -- "There is no such thing!" : on public service, broadcasting, the national health service, and "people" in the 1980s / Patricia Holland and Georgia Eglezou -- "New times" television? : Channel 4 and My beautiful laundrette / Alexander Beaumont -- The gospel of Gandhi : whiteness and state narcissism in Thatcherite England / Jason Mezey -- Rural heritage and colonial nostalgia in the Thatcher years : V.S. Naipaul's The enigma of arrival / Lucienne Loh -- There's no place like home : Margaret Thatcher at Number 10 Downing Street / Kevin A. Morrison -- pt. 2. After -- Shameless? : picturing the "underclass" after Thatcherism / Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi -- Carving up value : the tragicomic Thatcher years in Jonathan Coe / Ryan Trimm -- Let's dance : the line of beauty and the revenant figure of Thatcher / Kim Duff -- Sarah Kane : Cool Britannia's reluctant feminist / Graham Saunders -- Parodic reiterations : representations of Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism in late twentieth-century British political cartoons / Heather Joyce Summary The first substantial interdisciplinary, cross-genre critique of Margaret Thatcher and her cultural 'afterlife', exploring Thatcher's legacy across a range of areas including public policy, broadcast media, film, poetry, architectural design, political cartoons and literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Thatcher, Margaret -- Influence Thatcher, Margaret -- Political and social views Thatcher, Margaret -- Public opinion SUBJECT Thatcher, Margaret fast Thatcher, Margaret, 1925- -- influenser. sao Subject Politics and culture -- Great Britain -- 20th century Popular culture -- Great Britain -- 20th century Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century British & Irish history -- British Isles. Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 -- British Isles. Popular culture -- British Isles. Media studies -- British Isles. HISTORY. History. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life Political and social views Politics and culture Politics and government Popular culture Public opinion Social conditions Politik och kultur -- Storbritannien. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056924 Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056857 Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056944 Subject Great Britain Storbritannien -- politik och förvaltning -- 1979-1997. Storbritannien -- sociala förhållanden -- 1900-talet. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Hadley, Louisa. Ho, Elizabeth. ISBN 9780230283169 0230283160 1282911619 9781282911611 9786612911613 6612911611

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