British Cinema and Thatcherism

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Britisch cinema and Thatcherism is an informed and provocative Analysis of the Responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher. It is the first up-to-date examination of British film of the 1980s, and it represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema. Films during the Thatcher era bear Little resemblance to the tasteful but tedious adaptions so often associated with British film-making, and instead Show a varying degree of reaction to Thatcherite ideology.