Hybrid Heritage on Screen: The 'Raj Revival' in the Thatcher Era

by E. Oliete-Aldea

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137463968
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/08/2015
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	227
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Porosity of Identity Boundaries 2. Britain in the 1980s: The Thatcher Decade 3. British Cinema and the Raj Revival 4. 'On Heroes': Bapu Goes West 5. History in Literary Adaptations 6. The Raj on TV Conclusion: Cohabiting In Hybridity? Appendix. Selected Filmography References Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

'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

Editorial Reviews

'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

From the Publisher