1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910502976703321

Autore

Burton Michael <1952->

Titolo

From Broke to Brexit : Britain's Lost Decade / / Michael Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]

ISBN

9783030818890

3030818896

3030818888

9783030818883

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

320.941090512

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Great Britain Politics and government 2007-

Great Britain Economic conditions 1997-

Great Britain Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: The undercurrents -- Chapter 1 From boom to bust -- Chapter 2. What has the EU ever done for us? -- Chapter 3. The immigration debate -- Chapter 4. Globalism and the left       behind. Chapter 5 The great faultline: Europe and the Conservatives -- Part II: The catalysts -- Chapter 6. Austerity -- Chapter 7. Cameron opts for a referendum -- Chapter 8. Pulling up the drawbridge -- Chapter 9 The disrupters -- Chapter 10. The recovery that wasn't -- Chapter 11. Labour turns to populism -- Chapter 12. Dress  rehearsal for the referendum -- Part III: The brave new world -- Chapter 13. Road map to the referendum -- Chapter 14. The referendum -- Chapter 15. The merry months of May -- Chapter 16. The gamble that failed -- Chapter 17. Brexit unravels -- Chapter 18. Boris and the Brexiteers -- Chapter 19. Aftermath.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300042203321

Autore

Wallace Richard

Titolo

Mockumentary Comedy : Performing Authenticity / / by Richard Wallace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319778488

331977848X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 226 pages) : 13 illustrations, (some color)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Comedy, , 2731-4340

Disciplina

791.43

Soggetti

Documentary films

Popular culture

Motion picture acting

Comedy

Documentary Studies

Popular Culture

Screen Performance

Comedy Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television programmes make visible-through comedy-the performances that underpin straight documentaries and many of our public figures. Mockumentary Comedy focuses on the rock star and the politician, two figures that regularly feature as mockumentary subjects. These public figures are explored through detailed textual analyses of a range of film and television comedies, including A Hard Day's Night, This is Spinal Tap, The Thick of It, Veep and the works of Christopher Guest and Alison Jackson. This book broadens the scope of existing mockumentary scholarship by taking comedy seriously in a sustained way for the first time. It ultimately argues that the comedic



performances-by performers and of documentary conventions-are central to the form's critical significance and popular appeal. .