Films of Fact British Cinema and Thatcherism by Lester Friedman

Films of Fact British Cinema and Thatcherism by Lester Friedman

Fires Were Started is a provocative analysis of the responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and it represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema. This second edition includes revised and updated contributions from some of the leading scholars of British cinema, including Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen and Manthia Diawara. The book discuss prominent filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg and Stephen Frears, it also explores some lesser known but equally important territory such as the work of Black British filmmakers, the Leeds Animation Workshop and Channel 4's Film on Four. Films discussed include Distant Voices, Still Lives, My Beautiful Launderette, Chariots of Fire and Drowning by Numbers.

Lester D. Friedman is a scholar-in-residence at Hobart William Smith College in Washington, D.C. for the Media and Society Program. The Jewish Image in American Film (1987), Unspeakable Images: Multiculturalism in American Cinema (1991), and Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1999) are among his previous works.

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ISBN 13	9781904764717
ISBN 10	1904764711
Title	Films of Fact British Cinema and Thatcherism
Author	Lester Friedman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wallflower Press
Year published	2007-02-10
Number of pages	256
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