Films of Fact 2e

List of Contributors vii Preface to the First Edition xi Preface to the Second Edition xix Acknowledgements xxiii Introduction: The Empire Strikes Out: An American Perspective on the British Film Industry 1(14) Lester D. Friedman PART I CULTURAL CONTEXTS AND CINEMATIC CONSTRUCTIONS The Religion of the Market: Thatcherite Politics and the British Film of the 1980s 15(15) Leonard Quart The Last New Wave: Modernism in the British Films of the Thatcher Era 30(15) Peter Wollen Images for Sale: The `New' British Cinema 45(13) Thomas Elsaesser History with Holes: Channel 4 Television Films of the 1980s 58(19) Paul Giles The Repression of Communities: Visual Representations of Northern Ireland during the Thatcher Years 77(14) Brian Mcllroy Re-presenting the National Past: Nostalgia and Pastiche in the Heritage Film 91(19) Andrew Higson Free from the Apron Strings: Representations of Mothers in the Maternal British State 110(15) Mary Desjardins PART II FILMMAKERS DURING THE THATCHER ERA Power and Territory: The Emergence of Black British Film Collectives 125(11) Manthia Diawara Encounters with Thatcherism: Four Women Filmmakers 136(23) Deborah Tudor Women's Independent Cinema: The Case of Leeds Animation Workshop 159(23) Antonia Lant The Body Politic: Ken Russell in the 1980s 182(13) Barry Keith Grant `Everyone's an American Now': Thatcherite Ideology in the Films of Nicolas Roeg 195(14) Jim Leach Insurmountable Difficulties and Moments of Ecstasy: Crossing Class, Ethnic and Sexual Barriers in the Films of Stephen Frears 209(14) Susan Torrey Barber No Such Thing as Society: Television and the Apocalypse 223(20) Sean O'Sullivan The Masochistic Fix: Gender Oppression in the Films of Terence Davies 243(16) Tony Williams Local Focus, Global Frame: Ken Loach and the Cinema of Dispossession 259(23) James F. English Allegories of Thatcherism: Peter Greenaway's Films of the 1980s 282(19) Michael Walsh Private Practice, Public Health: The Politics of Sickness and the Films of Derek Jarman 301(14) Chris Lippard Guy Johnson Low Hopes: Mike Leigh Meets Margaret Thatcher 315(17) David Sterritt Index 332