S Anthony

Biographic Data

ID10502759
NAMES Anthony
GIVEN NAMESS
FAMILY NAMEAnthony
SIGNATUREANTHONY S
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX1

  • History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics

    Samantha J Anthony, S AnthonyARTICLETwentieth Century British History2013

    In his film, The Attic, Adam Curtis argued that Margaret Thatcher became so deeply attached to a romanticised view of the nation’s past that it undermined her understanding of contemporary reality. History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics makes much the same argument in the opposite way; it details how, since the Thatcher era, party politics has drawn heavily on the rhetoric of the past for purposes that are reductively pr…

  • Humphrey Jennings and British Documentary Film

    Samantha J Anthony, S AnthonyARTICLETwentieth Century British History2012

    Humphrey Jennings is an attractive figure for historians of inter-war Britain and the Second World War. Mass Observer, Surrealist, patriot, historian, and maker of exquisitely observed documentary films, he appears (perhaps too neatly) to channel the complex artistic, cultural, and political sensibilities of the 1930s generation. The everyday sinew and contradictions of life in modern Britain, which Orwell pinpointed in prose, Jennings captured o…

  • Introduction

    Samantha J Anthony, S Anthony et al.ARTICLETwentieth Century British History2012Cited by: 4

    The emergence of the British documentary film movement marked a seminal moment, not only in the history of film, but also in modern British history. As well as providing Britain with its first self-consciously national cinema, the story of the documentary film movement illustrates some of the hardier debates in the historiography of twentieth-century Britain, including new developments in the conceptualization of citizenship, the growth of mass c…