Fires were started: British cinema and Thatcherism

Abstract

The Empire strikes out: an American perspective on the British film industry. Part 1 Cultural contexts and cinematic constructions: The religion of the market - Thatcherite politics and the British film of the 1980s The last new wave - modernism in the British films of the Thatcher era Images for sale - the New British cinema History with holes - Channel 4 television films of the 1980s The repression of communities - visual representations of Northern Ireland Re-presenting the national past - nostalgia and pastiche in the heritage films Free from the apron strings - representations of mothers in the maternal British state. Part 2 Film-makers during the Thatcher era: Power and territory - the emergence of Black British film collectives 1980-1990 Women's independent cinema in eighties Britain - the case of the Leeds Animation Workshop The body politic - Ken Russell in the 1980s Everyone's an American now - Thatcherist ideology in the films of Nicolas Roeg Insurmountable difficulties and moments of ecstacy - crossing barriers in the films of Stephen Frears The masochistic fix - gender oppression in the films of Terence Davies Allegories of Thatcherism - the films of Peter Greenaway Private practice, public health - the politics of sickness and the films of Derek Jarman.