Cinema and Brexit

The Politics of Popular English Film

Neil Archer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-27434-1 (ISBN)

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Neil Archer’s original study makes a timely and politically-engaged intervention in debates about national cinema and national identity. Structured around key examples of ‘culturally English cinema’ in the years up to and following the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union, Cinema and Brexit looks to make sense of the peculiarities and paradoxes marking this era of filmmaking. At the same time as providing a contextual and analytical reading of 21st century filmmaking in Britain, Archer raises critical questions about popular national cinema, and how Brexit has cast both light and shadow over this body of films.
Central to Archer’s argument is the idea that Brexit represents not just a critical moment in how we will understand future film production, but also in how we will understand production of the recent past. Using as a point of departure the London Olympics opening ceremony of 2012, Cinema and Brexit considers the tensions inherent in a wide range of films, including Skyfall (2012), Dunkirk (2017), Their Finest (2017), Darkest Hour (2017), The Crown (Netflix, 2016), Paddington (2014), Paddington 2 (2017), Never Let Me Go (2011), Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016), The Trip (2010), The Inbetweeners Movie (2011), Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007), The World’s End (2013), Sightseers (2012), One Day (2011), Attack the Block (2011), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) and The Kid Who Would be King (2019). Archer examines the complex national narratives and representations these films expound, situating his analyses within the broader commercial contexts of film production beyond Hollywood, highlighting the negotiations or contradictions at play between the industrial imperatives of contemporary films and the varied circumstances in which they are made.
Considering some of the ways a popular and globally-minded English cinema is finding means to work alongside and through the contexts of Brexit, he questions what are the stakes for, and possibilities of, a global ‘culturally English cinema’ in 2019 and beyond.

Neil Archer is Lecturer in Film Studies at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy (I.B. Tauris, 2017); The Road Movie: In Search of Meaning (2016); Hot Fuzz (2015); The French Road Movie: Space, Mobility, Identity (2013); The Bourne Ultimatum (2012) and Adaptation: Studies in French and Francophone Culture, co-edited with Andreea Weisl-Shaw (2011).

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
General Editor’s Introduction
Introduction: Film through the looking glass
1Film politics: Brexit, brand Britain and soft power
2Comedians and sunscreen: The English holiday film and the idea of Europe
3‘Not to Yield’: Globalization, nation and the epic imagination of English cinema
4Genius of Britain: The English scientist film and other science fictions
5Through a screen, darkly: Austerity genres, Brexit topographies and the precarity of national cinema
6Just follow the bear? StudioCanal, transnational franchises and a European English cinema
Conclusion: Longing for yesterday?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	Cinema and Society
Zusatzinfo	30 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-350-27434-8 / 1350274348
ISBN-13	978-1-350-27434-1 / 9781350274341
Zustand	Neuware