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Genre/Form: | Kongress History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Caunce |
ISBN: | 0719070260 9780719070266 |
OCLC Number: | 56345116 |
Description: | xi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction / John K. Walton -- 1. Relocating Britishness and the break-up of Britain / Jon Cook -- 2. A shell for neo-liberalism : new labour Britain and the millennium dome / Jim McGuigan -- 3. Blackpool and the varieties of Britshness / John K. Walton -- 4. Family, social class and politics in the films of Mike Leigh / Ewa Mazierska -- 5. Football and the crisis of British identity / Jeffrey Richards -- 6. What's happening to England? : twentieth-century cricket / Charles Barr -- 7. From Sherlock Holmes to James Bond : masculinity and national identity in British popular fiction / James Chapman and Matthew Hilton -- 8. 'Who dies if England live?' : masculinity, the problematics of 'Englishness' and the image of the ordinary soldier in British war art, c. 1915-28 / J.A. Black -- 9. The 'other war' : subversive images of the Second World War in service comedies / Andrew Spicer -- 10. Regional identity : a gendered heritage? : reading women in 1990s fiction / Val Williamson -- 11. Welsh national identity and the British political process / Carwyn Fowler -- 12. The orange order and representations of Britishness / Christine Kinealy -- 13. Filmic representations of the British-Irish conflict since the ceasefires of 1994 / Cahal McLaughlin -- 14. From Z Cars (1962) to The Cops (1998) : the northern television police series / Susan Sydney-Smith. |
Series Title: | Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England) |
Responsibility: | edited by Stephen Caunce [and others]. |
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Abstract:
Offering a range of original perspectives on how Britishness might be constructed at the turn of the millennium and where it might be going, this volume pulls together various disciplines and a variety of geographical perspectives to offer a distinctive set of views for the understanding of Britishness and how it is expressed.
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