Thatcher and After: Margaret Thatcher and Her Afterlife in Contemporary Culture [Hardcover]

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.Acknowledgements Notes on?Contributors 'The Lady's Not For Turning': New Cultural Perspectives on Thatcher and Thatcherism; L.Hadley & E.Ho PART I: THATCHER 'There Is No Such Thing!': On Public Service, Broadcasting, The National Health Service and 'People' in the 1980s; P.Holland & G.Eglezou 'New Times' Television?: Channel 4 and My Beautiful Laundrette ; A.Beaumont The Gospel of Gandhi : Whiteness and State Narcissism in Thatcherite England; J.Mezey Rural Heritage and Colonial Nostalgia in the Thatcher Years: V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival ;? L.Loh There's No Place like Home: Margaret Thatcher at Number 10 Downing Street;? K.A.Morrison PART II: AFTER Shameless?: Picturing the 'Underclass' after Thatcherism; H.Nunn? & A.Biressi Carving Up Value: The Tragicomic Thatcher Years in Jonathan Coe; R.Trimm Let's Dance: The Line of Beauty and the Revenant Figure of Thatcher;? K.Duff Sarah Kane: Cool Britannia's Reluctant Feminist;? G.Saunders Parodic Reiterations: Representations of Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism in Late Twentieth-Century British Political Cartoons; H.Joyce Notes IndexALEXANDER BEAUMONT Doctoral student in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UKANITA BIRESSI Reader in Media Cultures at Roehampton University, UKKIM DUFF Research Student at the University of British Columbia, CanadaGEORGIA EGLEZOU Researcher on the AHRC funded project 'No such thing as society?: Broadcasting and the public services 1979-1992PATRICIA HOLLAND Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth Media School, UKHEATHER JOYCE Doctoral Candidate in the Department of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CanadaLUCIENNE LOH Associate Lecturer in English at Roylƒ½