British Cinema in a Divided Nation: JOHN WHITE, 2022 Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press pp. 264, bibliography, $110 (hardback)

ABSTRACT

In this monograph, John White (Anglia Ruskin University) assesses the precarious "state of the nation" as explored by contemporary British cinema, and as informed by two extended crises - Brexit and the Covid-19 - that embody the divisions that he otherwise sees in his case study films. While some of the films explored in the book are "about" Brexit in symbolic ways, these two frames are not directly the subject matter of the films investigated. In his words, the book aims to explore 'film in relation to history and politics, examining film representations in relation to the major axes of socio-economic division within contemporary society' (p. 226). [Extracted from the article]