Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904764711 ISBN 13: 9781904764717

Publisher: Wallflower Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Lester D. Friedman is scholar-in-residence for the Media and Society Program at Hobart William Smith Collage, Washington, D.C. Previous publications include The Jewish Image in American Film (1987), Unspeakable Images: Multiculturalism in American Cinema (1991), and Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1999).

Review:

Recommended. (Choice)

About this edition

• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1904764711
• ISBN 13: 9781904764717
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Friedman Lester