Thatcher and after: Margaret Thatcher and her afterlife in contemporary culture

The first substantial interdisciplinary, cross-genre critique of Margaret Thatcher and her cultural 'afterlife', exploring Thatcher's legacy across a rangeof areas including public policy, broadcast media, film, poetry, architectural design, political cartoons and literature. INDICE: - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - 'The Lady's Not For Turning': New Cultural Perspectives on Thatcher and Thatcherism; L.Hadley; E.Ho- PART I: THATCHER - 'There Is No Such Thing!': On Public Service, Broadcasting, The National Health Service and 'People' in the 1980s; P.Holland; G.Eglezou - 'New Times' Television?: Channel 4 and My Beautiful Laundrette ; A.Beaumont - The Gospel of Gandhi : Whiteness and State Narcissism in Thatcherite England; J.Mezey - Rural Heritage and Colonial Nostalgia in the Thatcher Years: V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival ; L.Loh - There's No Place like Home: Margaret Thatcher at Number 10 Downing Street; K.A.Morrison - PART II: AFTER - Shameless?: Picturing the 'Underclass' after Thatcherism; H.Nunn; A.Biressi - Carving Up Value: The Tragicomic Thatcher Years in Jonathan Coe; R.Trimm - Let's Dance: The Line of Beauty and the Revenant Figure of Thatcher; K.Duff - Sarah Kane: Cool Britannia's Reluctant Feminist; G.Saunders - Parodic Reiterations: Representations of Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism in Late Twentieth-Century British Political Cartoons; H.Joyce - Notes - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23331-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 13/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés