Hybrid Heritage on Screen - The 'Raj Revival' in the Thatcher Era

Hybrid Heritage on Screen provides a long overdue thorough analysis of the 1980s 'Raj Revival'. It examines imperial nostalgia and troubled ethnic, gender and class relations during the Thatcher Era as represented in cinema and television.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Porosity of Identity Boundaries 2. Britain in the 1980s: The Thatcher Decade 3. British Cinema and the Raj Revival 4. 'On Heroes': Bapu Goes West 5. History in Literary Adaptations 6. The Raj on TV Conclusion: Cohabiting In Hybridity? Appendix. Selected Filmography References Index

About the author

Elena Oliete-Aldea is Lecturer at the Department of English of the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She belongs to several research groups on film and cultural studies and her main areas of interest include filmic representations of cultural identities and international relationships in the context of globalisation in transnational Anglophone cinema.

Summary

Hybrid Heritage on Screen provides a long overdue thorough analysis of the 1980s 'Raj Revival'. It examines imperial nostalgia and troubled ethnic, gender and class relations during the Thatcher Era as represented in cinema and television.

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Product details

• Authors: E Oliete-Aldea, E. Oliete-Aldea
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9781349690633
• ISBN: 978-1-349-69063-3
• No. of pages: 227
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 308 g
• Illustrations: IX, 227 p. 1 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; B, Cultural History, Media Studies, Performing Arts, Communication, The arts: general issues, Arts, Social & cultural history, Film History, Media and Communication, Civilization—History, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Film and Television Studies, Film and TV History, Screen Studies, Motion pictures—History, Motion pictures and television, Motion pictures—Great Britain, British Cinema and TV, Film history, theory & criticism, British Film and TV