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Did Thatcher Inspire Great Political Cinema?

Mark Hodge | Posted 17.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Alan Clarke, Margaret Thatcher Film, Margaret Thatcher, 1980s, Alan Bleasdale, Political Films, Stephen Frears, UK Film, UK Cinema, UK Entertainment News
Mark Hodge

Arguably the finest example of Thatcher's Britain captured on film is Stephen Frears's My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). The director, along with screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, managed to encapsulate pertinent social and economic issues in a truly unconventional romantic comedy.

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We Have Nothing to Lose But Our USP!

Joanna Kavenna | Posted 02.08.2012 | Home
Read More: Hilary Lawson, Virginia Woolf, Bracha Ettinger, Bob and Roberta Smith, Raymond Tallis, Albert Camus, Griselda Pollock, Hay-on-Wye, Howthelightgetsin, Marcel Proust, Rupert Sheldrake, Crunch, Wall Street, Stephen Frears, Jake Chapman, Mark Twain, D.H. Lawrence, Home News
Joanna Kavenna

I met a literary agent the other day. She told me that these days when you sell a novel to publishers, there has to be a USP. "A what?" I said. "'Unique Selling Point. You know, narrated by a hermaphrodite, or someone who has been repeatedly raped by their grandfather, that sort of thing.

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