Thatcher and After

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Louisa Hadley, Elizabeth Ho

      Pages 1-26

3. Thatcher

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. “There is no such thing!”: On Public Service, Broadcasting, the National Health Service and “people” in the 1980s

      • Patricia Holland, Georgia Eglezou

      Pages 29-52

   3. “New Times” Television? Channel 4 and My Beautiful Laundrette

      • Alex Beaumont

      Pages 53-74

   4. The Gospel of Gandhi: Whiteness and State Narcissism in Thatcherite England

      • Jason Mezey

      Pages 75-95

   5. Rural Heritage and Colonial Nostalgia in the Thatcher Years: V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival

      • Lucienne Loh

      Pages 96-114

   6. There’s No Place like Home: Margaret Thatcher at Number 10 Downing Street

      • Kevin A. Morrison

      Pages 115-133

4. After

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Shameless?: Picturing the “underclass” after Thatcherism

      • Heather Nunn, Anita Biressi

      Pages 137-157

   3. Carving Up Value: The Tragicomic Thatcher Years in Jonathan Coe

      • Ryan Trimm

      Pages 158-179

   4. Let’s Dance: The Line of Beauty and the Revenant Figure of Thatcher

      • Kim Duff

      Pages 180-198

   5. Sarah Kane: Cool Britannia’s Reluctant Feminist

      • Graham Saunders

      Pages 199-220

   6. Parodic Reiterations: Representations of Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism in Late Twentieth-Century British Political Cartoons

      • Heather Joyce

      Pages 221-243

5. Back Matter

   Pages 244-250

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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.

• broadcasting
• culture
• England
• English literature
• film
• media
• television
• Thatcher

• University of Edinburgh, UK

  Louisa Hadley

• Grant MacEwan College and Concordia, University College of Alberta, Canada

  Louisa Hadley

• Ursinus College, USA

  Elizabeth Ho

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

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