Thatcher and After: Margaret Thatcher and Her Afterlife in Contemporary Culture

by Elizabeth Ho, L. Hadley

Overview

The first substantial interdisciplinary, cross-genre critique of Margaret Thatcher and her cultural 'afterlife', exploring Thatcher's legacy across a range of areas including public policy, broadcast media, film, poetry, architectural design, political cartoons and literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230233317
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/16/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

ALEXANDER BEAUMONT Doctoral student in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK ANITA BIRESSI Reader in Media Cultures at Roehampton University, UK KIM DUFF Research Student at the University of British Columbia, Canada GEORGIA EGLEZOU Researcher on the AHRC funded project 'No such thing as society?: Broadcasting and the public services 1979-1992 PATRICIA HOLLAND Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth Media School, UK HEATHER JOYCE Doctoral Candidate in the Department of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada LUCIENNE LOH Associate Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London, Oxford Brookes University and Brunel University, UK JASON MEZE Assistant Professor of English at St. Joseph's University, USA KEVEN A. MORRISON Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University, USA HEATHER NUNN Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at Roehampton University, UK GRAHAM SAUNDERS Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Reading, UK RYAN TRIMM Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Rhode Island, USA

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

Acknowledgments viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction

"The Lady's Not For Turning": New Cultural Perspectives on Thatcher and Tatcherism 1

Part I Thatcher

1 "There is no such thing!" On Public Service, Broadcasting, the National Health Service and "People" in the 1980s Patricia Holland Georgia Eglezou 29

2 "New Times" Television?: Channel 4 and My Beautiful Laundrette Alex Beaumont 53

3 The Gospel of Gandhi: Whiteness and State Narcissism in Thatcherite England Jason Mezey 75

4 Rural Heritage and Colonial Nostalgia in the Thatcher Years: V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival Lucienne Loh 96

5 There's No Place like Home: Margaret Thatcher at Number 10 Downing Street Kevin A. Morrison 115

Part II After

6 Shameless?: Picturing the "Underclass" after Thatcherism Heather Nunn Anita Biressi 137

7 Carving Up Value: The Tragicomic Thatcher Years in Jonathan Coe Ryan Trimm 158

8 Let's Dance: The Line of Beauty and the Revenant Figure of Thatcher Kim Duff 180

9 Sarah Kane: Cool Britannia's Reluctant Feminist Graham Saunders 199

10 Parodic Reiterations: Representations of Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism in Late Twentieth-Century British Political Cartoons Heather Joyce 221

Index 244