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This book provides a cultural and aesthetic exploration of 1980s British cinema as a direct response to the government policies and political ideology of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Films during the Thatcher era bear little resemblance to the tastefully tedious adaptations so often associated with British filmmaking. Many filmmakers of the period shared a revulsion, to one degree or another, for Thatcher's ideology, though their methods of expressing their distaste ran the gamut of aesthetic options. In a paradoxical manner, their intense and unwavering hatred of Margaret Thatcher provided the spark necessary to force Britain's best visual artists to new creative heights that ultimately rejuvenated a stagnant movie industry. Lester Friedman has assembled a unique collection of original work by some of the leading scholars of British cinema, including Leonard Quart, Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen, Antonia Lant, and Manthia Diawara. Through a variety of approaches each contributor addresses the relationship between ideology and cultural production in general, and the relationship between Thatcherism and British cinema in particular. Friedman forcefully demonstrates how filmmakers offer viable alternatives to officially sanctioned versions of the truth, while at the same time creating bold and serious works that reach far beyond the confines of geography and politics. Lester Friedman teaches English and humanities at SUNY Health Science Center,and Cinema Studies at Syracuse University. He is the author of the award-winning "The Image of the Jew in American Film" and editor of "Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema".
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- PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0816620806
- ISBN 13 9780816620807
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages344
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