Britishness

Patrick Mai Research Essay Phillip Woods 4 December 2014 Can the State Use Film to Influence National Identity? Cinema can be, has been, and will continue to act as an incubator for cultural nationalism. Film propaganda serves to target specific groups in order to persuade viewers into adopting the film’s intended messages or beliefs whether they are political, economical, religious, or philosophical. In cases like Britain during World War II, the government’s goal was to gain support for the…

After World War II, British national identity was challenged because the citizens of England went from living in an all-white bubble of white supremacy to seeing the people they colonized in the flat next door, or as a coworker in the factory, and eventually, as the labor needs shifted, as getting the job they applied for. Imperialism and white supremacy ensured that British national identity was sure to be challenged when people British nationals had been taught were inferior came into their…

The opening ceremony selectively borrows the elements from the British films and keep the perceptions of the Britishness in these films that make them distinctive in global cinematic domains. Through the simulations of Britishness, The ceremony thus becomes a global audio-visual commodities (Tzanelli, 2013: 59). The performance heavily emphasizes on the nationally iconic personality from popular culture such as Mr Bean and James Bond and successfully achieved a blending of the seriousness and…

Social realist messages normally concentrate on the sort of characters not for the most part found in standard movies. Social realist writings attract characters that occupy the social edges of society as far as status and force. This 'social augmentation' has typically included the representation of the regular workers at snippets of social and monetary change. Slope has noticed that this is not simply a question of speaking to the beforehand under-spoke to however that these subjects are…

I decided to create a photo-book about immigrants, more specifically Muslim women. I wanted to use portrait photography to show the different types of women. One of the things foreigners hear the most is “go back to your own country” or “go back to where you came from”. But half of us are born in the UK and its all we know is Britain. My mother came to Britain aged 3 and was brought up in an environment which had no Islamic education. She has a sense of belonging the UK and felt at home.…

conditions existing prior to 1938, would probably not have been reached for another fifty years” but that post-war, it risked having no market for its industrial output. Australia’s fears were compounded by the fact that, despite Australia’s essential “Britishness,” Anglo-Australian relations lacked geopolitical harmony. British prioritisation, as…

The Britishness of Anglo Indians in Ruth Jhabvala’s A Backward Place Displacement characterizes the life and writings of Ruth Jhabvala. Her Jewish ancestry and sojourn in three countries – Europe, Asia and North America got her the much theorized label “diasporic” to her subjectivity and oeuvre. Unlike many diasporic writers Jhabvala does not reconstruct a Europe she had lived in as an imaginary homeland or a delineation of the community of her ethnic origin (Jewish) in her adopted homeland,…

Between racism and acceptance. Between old and new. Between the EU and the U.S. In all things Britain performs this balancing act. An act that often, more often not, than to edges into hypocrisy. They proclaim “Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish,” all the while alienating and pushing out the Indian population that created said dish. They are all too happy to wholly accept white immigrants,but push against non-white immigrants. Purely on the color of their skin. Continued…

I was seven years old when I landed at London Heathrow Airport as a refugee. I was accompanied by my mother, sister and cousin. The year was 1995. I have vivid memories of the flight and the aftermath. My mother recalls the sympathy and kindness with which we were treated. We were taken into a small room by an immigration official who gave us tea and rich tea biscuits. I remember being tired because we landed just before midnight on a Saturday night. I also recall being excited because I was…

The only reference to the multi-ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom is actually the Empire Windrush, which was briefly mentioned. Along with the section regarding the industrial era, one could see migrants arriving with their suitcases. They in fact represented the first migrants coming to London from the Caribbean after the Second World War. However, in Silk’s work, the Empire Windrush is considered a “past ‘problem’ given closure.” 1.4.7. The Celebration of the Masses Instead of the…