Billy Elliot Context: • Margaret Thatcher --- Thatcherism • 1979 – 1990 • Harsh policies – free trade‚ no government intervention in business‚ increase in rate of tax for lower income‚ decrease in rate of tax for higher income • Set in 1984‚ Durran‚ Coalfield mining town in England Film: • Strong family images (still images) vs. strike of miners = rich family life vs. violence (contrast) • Scab = industrial relations talk – people who go to work even when union is on strike • Cultural –
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explains why Oliver Stapleton the cinematograher sticks mainly to tight framing and close ups. It also intended to use elements of social realism as used by the British cinematic movement of earlier decades. The film can be used as a critique of Thatcherism‚ a time when ironically the political and cultural background of the era led to a revival in British cinema although there was little funding on offer to film
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16 January 2012) Hall S and Jacques M. (eds) The Politics of Thatcherism Lawrence and Wishart‚ 1983 Margaret Thatcher Foundation. Available at: http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102377 (Accessed: 16 January 2012) Marsh‚ D. (1992) ‘Implementing Thatcherism: Policy Change in the 1980’s’ [Online]. Available at http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/1/33.short (Accessed 16 January 2012) Evans‚ E. (1997) Thatcher and Thatcherism. 2nd edn. Oxon: Routledge. Cloke‚ P. (1992) Policy and Change in
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Margaret Thatcher Britain’s first ever-female prime minster had a political career that spanned over 3 decades and bring in a new type of politics Thatcherism to the table. Being a very controversial woman she still splits option to this very day. But what has to be said‚ is that the Falkland’s war was the turning point in Margaret Thatcher ’s career and they way the future of Britain turned out. The Falklands crises was when the name Iron Lady was adopted. But how could a woman go from been the
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Is the PM becoming presidential? Intro Foley thesis from ‘The British Presidency’ (2000) Emphasises dominance of PM over cabinet Must distinguish between style and substance For Spatial leadership * Thatchers ‘Thatcherism’ * Blairs ‘Third Way’ * Similar to Bush’s ‘Compassionate Republican’ * “Ideological consciences of their party” - Heywood Populist outreach * PM’s claim to “articulate deepest hopes and fears” – Heywood * Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ * Obamas ‘Yes
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how the growth of spatial leadership has become more prevalent in recent years. Prime Ministers now tend to distance themselves from Cabinet and be their own ruler of government. They also tend to get entire ideologies named after them such as Thatcherism or Blairism (after Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair). Prime Ministers also tend to be more ‘with the people’ than with their party. In conjunction with this‚ personalised election campaigns are becoming more common during General Elections. More
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‘Child hood innocence is never live – by the child – as innocent‚ but constructed as such afterwards’. Innocence is given a curious examination in both J.G Ballard’s Running Wild and Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time‚ with each text set against the backdrop of a dystopian English society‚ close enough to reality to be considered allegorical in reference to the state of the nation. It is within the discussion of society that the idea of innocence is represented as a constructed and therefore unattainable
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These four pieces of legislation created a welfare state which brought about a major change for people in Britain. After the war it was more noticeable how many people were poor and deprived in Britain. William Beveridge who was a liberal politician identified five issues that needed to be tackled to make Britain better. To achieve this Beveridge proposed the introduction of the welfare state. He came up with five giants that needed to be addressed to help poverty. The five giants were want‚ disease
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The Labour party was founded on the principles of social democracy‚ which is a traditionally centre left ideology. It has been Britain’s major democratic socialist party since the 20th century and since then has been committed on basing its ideologies on advancement for the working class. Until the 1980’s‚ Labour had kept its principles consistent‚ but with the development of Michael Foot’s ‘loony left’ movement which was based largely around the irrational minority issues and racial problems. It
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by the Conservative leader David Cameron it combines Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs and has been subject of intense scrutiny by each of the parties. This has meant that David Cameron has had to keep to his parties traditional values (e.g. Thatcherism) in order to hold party loyalty but at the same time make policy concessions to the Liberal Democrats so that he can maintain government unity. This has led to the cabinet being in a much stronger position (in relation to the prime minister) than
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