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English, Whose English?
24 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Availability:
This title is no longer available from the Roland Collection
Additional information
Order number: 1052
Professor Graham Martin, Open University, investigates some ways in which images of England were developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a means of justifying and maintaining imperialism, against increasing doubt and conflict about Britain's imperial ambitions. He examines the roles played by archive footage, newsreels, feature films and travelogues, by English literature - Virginia Woolf, Rupert Brooke, Kipling and The Wind in the Willows - by the monarchy, the countryside and that most English of sports, cricket. He ends by looking at the apparent break in the continuity of English literature provoked by Modernism and by reactions to the Great War, exemplified by Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and TS Eliot's The Waste Land - both works were later absorbed into a redefined concept of English literature.
Credits -
Director:
Tony Coe
Presenter:
Professor Graham Martin
Actors:
Hilary Cromie,Stephen Earle
Open University/BBC
