This module examines the hybrid and diverse nature of the British cinema since the advent of the British New Wave in the early 1960s. Over the course of the module, we will explore a number of key themes in the British cinema¿s long post-war quest for a sustainable model of film-making: the tensions between the local and the international; the consistent struggle between art and entertainment; and the recurring pattern of `boom and bust¿ in British production. Central to our examination of British cinema since 1960, however, will be a focus on the social, political, and cultural contexts of British cinema, and the ways in which British cinema, and British culture, has been marked (and transformed) by the British Empire and its legacies. Topics covered include: the emergence of the `New Wave¿ and `Swinging London¿; genre and popular British cinema; British cinema¿s reaction to decolonisation and the `End of Empire¿; race, identity and diaspora; popular cinema under Thatcher; avant-garde cinema and the film workshop movement; cinema and `multiculturalism¿ in the 1990s; Britpop cinema and the Blair years; sovereignty and nationhood in 21st century British cinema.

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