British cinema in the 1980s : issues and themes

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British cinema in the 1980s : issues and themes

John Hill

Oxford University Press, 1999

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-251) and index

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ISBN 9780198119845

内容説明

The role and identity of British cinema has been changing, and it is these changes with this text is concerned. It looks at the increasing domination of the world film industry by Hollywood and the response of British filmmaking to this, the role of government, and the increasingly close relationship between film and television. It also examines the kinds of images British cinema produced in this period and how they relate to the shifting sense of "British" identity. The book not only looks at the appeal of images of the past in the heritage film (such as "Howard's End") and "films of Empire" (such as "A Passage to India") but also discusses the more questioning images of the present by the "state of the nation" film such as "Letter to Brezhnev" and "My Beautiful Laundrette". In doing so, it explores how these films deal with issues of class, gender and ethnicity and how these in turn connect to our understanding of the "Britishness" of British cinema. The text brings together a discussion of British society, the British film industry and British films to provide an analysis of the main themes and issues characterizing the British cinema of the time.

目次

  • Part 1 Contexts: the British cinema and Thatcherism
  • film policy and industrial change
  • film and television - a new relationship. Part 2 Representations of the past: the heritage film - issues and debates
  • films and Empire
  • remembering the 1950s - "Dance With a Stranger". Part 3 Contemporary representations: the "state of the nation" film
  • class, gender, and working-class realism
  • class politics and gender - "High Hopes" and "Riff-Raff"
  • "race" and cultural hybridity
  • "race" and the politics of form
  • conclusion - a national cinema?
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780198742562

内容説明

In recent years, the role and identity of British cinema has been changing, and it is these changes with which British Cinema in the 1980s is concerned. It looks at the increasing domination of the world film industry by Hollywood and the response of British filmmaking to this, the role of government, and the increasingly close relationship between film and television. It also examines the kinds of images British cinema produced in this period and how they relate to a shifting sense of `British' identity. The book not only looks at the appeal of images of the past in the heritage film (such as Howards End) and `films of Empire' (such as A Passage to India) but also discusses the more questioning images of the present by the `state of the nation' film such as Letter to Brezhnev and My Beautiful Laundrette. In doing so, it explores how these films deal with issues of class, gender and ethnicity and how these in turn connect to our understanding of the `Britishness' of British cinema. British Cinema in the 1980s will become the definitive study of an important period of British filmmaking. Bringing together a discussion of British society, the British film industry and British films, John Hill provides an accessible analysis of the main themes and issues characterizing British cinema of the time.

目次

  • PART ONE: CONTEXTS
  • PART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PAST
  • PART THREE: CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATIONS

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