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Hybrid Heritage on Screen

The ‘Raj Revival’ in the Thatcher Era

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Elena Oliete-Aldea

    1. University of Zaragoza, Spain

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Elena Oliete-Aldea
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Porosity of Identity Boundaries

    • Elena Oliete-Aldea
    Pages 7-30

  4. Britain in the 1980s: The Thatcher Decade

    • Elena Oliete-Aldea
    Pages 31-48

  5. British Cinema and the Raj Revival

    • Elena Oliete-Aldea
    Pages 49-85

  6. ‘On Heroes’: Bapu Goes West

    • Elena Oliete-Aldea
    Pages 86-108

  7. History in Literary Adaptations

    • Elena Oliete-Aldea
    Pages 109-150

  8. The Raj on TV

    • Elena Oliete-Aldea
    Pages 151-195

  9. Conclusion: Cohabiting in Hybridity?

    • Elena Oliete-Aldea
    Pages 196-198

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 199-227
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Hybrid Heritage on Screen provides a long overdue thorough analysis of the 1980s 'Raj Revival'. It examines imperial nostalgia and troubled ethnic, gender and class relations during the Thatcher Era as represented in cinema and television.

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'Interweaving the colonial and the post-colonial, this new book examines key cinematic and TV texts, as well as literature about the British Raj that makes it to the British screens in the 1980s through an engaging and nuanced interrogation of heritage and hybridity. This is a fine piece of scholarship that efficiently crosses boundaries from film and cultural studies to social and cultural history.' - Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester, UK

'Elena Oliete-Aldea provides a meticulous analysis of the British Raj productions of the Thatcher decade. She cogently argues that these highly popular films and TV series promoted a 'lost' British identity while simultaneously acting as a commodification of the nation's cultural heritage. Oliete-Aldea's valuable study will be of great interest to scholars and students of postcolonial studies.'

- Felicity Hand, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Zaragoza, Spain

    Elena Oliete-Aldea

About the author

Elena Oliete-Aldea is Lecturer at the Department of English of the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She belongs to several research groups on film and cultural studies and her main areas of interest include filmic representations of cultural identities and international relationships in the context of globalisation in transnational Anglophone cinema.

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