Matthew Kerry
Biographic Data
| ID | 1530849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Kerry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerry |
| SIGNATURE | KERRY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1871-1567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The death of ‘traditional’ charivari and the invention of pot-banging in Spain, c .1960–2020
Banging together pots and pans has become established as a common protest technique in Spain and across the world. Pot-banging can be linked to charivari: a centuries-old, Europe-wide, nuptial practice that subjected a marrying couple to mocking moral critique, which was also adapted for political ends. This article, however, distinguishes between nuptial charivari (the cencerrada) and recent political pot-banging (the cacerolada). The former suf…
Paul Preston. A People Betrayed
Paul Preston’s A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1876–2016 chronicles Spain’s history from the mid-1870s to the present day, with a focus on venality and corruption in the political world. The product of fifty years of research, it synthesizes Preston’s long list of publications dedicated to understanding twentieth-century Spain. Yet A People Betrayed could paradoxically only b…
Introduction – Activist times
Understandings of time have long formed a fundamental part of political ideologies and served to structure political action. The articles in this special issue of the European Review of History explore different ways in which different groups of activists have drawn on, experienced or projected different understandings of time in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century, often in contexts shaped by substantial upheaval and uncertainty. …
Nothing Compares to the Past
Processes of industrial decline have often generated nostalgia phenomena in the affected communities based on the more or less idealised memory of a past time of prosperity that disappeared as the chimneys went out (‘smokestack nostalgia’, this has been called sometimes). In an earlier time, the development of industries and mining had resulted in the configuration of well-defined social structures and socio-political frameworks. Class identity, …
The Bones of Contention
The secularizing efforts of the Spanish Second Republic met fierce resistance from Catholics and the Church. Local authorities spearheaded secularization in an unclear legal context, yet they also attempted to mediate between different demands, while protecting Catholic sentiment and respecting property rights. Cemeteries and funeral processions were a key battleground in a ‘culture war’ which straddles the nineteenth-century preoccupation with t…
Painted Tonsures and Potato-sellers
The Asturian revolutionary insurrection of 1934 saw the greatest outburst of anticlerical bloodletting in Spain for a century and prefigured the dramatic wave of anticlerical violence during the Spanish Civil War. Scholars have neglected, however, to study the experience of clerical survival. This article analyses how members of the clergy survived the insurrection through the prism of passing, concentrating on cleric's dress, gestures and revolu…
Radicalisation, Community and the Politics of Protest in the Spanish Second Republic
In October 1934 thousands of leftists took up arms in a two-week revolutionary insurrection in the northern Spanish region of Asturias which shook the Second Republic (1931–1936) and formed part of a critical European juncture of protest in 1934. This article rethinks the process of radicalisation—a key process for understanding both the insurrection and the wider polarisation of Spanish society prior to the Civil War—in the context of the Asturi…
Fin d’un monde ouvrier. Liévin, 1974
In the early hours of 27 December 1974, there was an explosion in a coalmine in Liévin, a commune southwest of Lens. Forty-one lost their lives instantly, while another individual died the following day. It is this mining accident—the most serious in post-war France—that is the main focus of Fontaine’s study, which combines both a careful and meticulous reconstruction of the ramifications and interpretations of the event at local level with a wid…
Representations of the family in postwar British amateur film
This article examines the construction of the postwar British family in amateur film with reference to the Sidney Lane and Cecil Scrutton collection held at the East Anglian Film Archive (EAFA), particularly the films covering 1948 – 1961. Heather Norris Nicholson argues that home movies contribute to ‘an understanding of leisure and visual-related practices of consumption as well as the social processes by which people came to give themselves, a…
The Changing Face of the Amateur Holiday Film In Britain as Constructed by Post-War Amateur Cine World (1945-1951)
Amateur filmmaking, motoring and holidaymaking were three complementary leisure activities which re-emerged with a greater intensity for middle-class consumers in the immediate postwar period. The end of restrictions on travel, an increasing availability of film stock, and the first real chance to take advantage of the Holidays With Pay Act, (the latter of which had been disrupted by World War II) created new opportunities for cine enthusiasts to…
The Holiday and British Film
A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema – the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s
Interrogating National Identity in the Recent British Holiday Film
In Chapter 7 I considered how holiday films of the 1970s ideologically reconstructed a sense of Britishness through their representation of the ‘traditional’ holiday at the seaside, in holiday camps and at caravan parks, in a period of economic and cultural crisis. Representations of the British embarking on foreign holidays can also be found in this period, for example in Carry On Abroad and Are You Being Served? These films — although ‘sending …
Conclusion
Throughout this book I have argued that the holiday film can ideologically construct feelings of national identity through its representation of the traditional British holiday. I concluded Chapter 8 by saying that national identity is not ‘fixed’ and that it is an ideological concept that shifts and changes over time. By analysing the holiday film across a century of cinema it may be expected that a number of different representations of nationa…
From Austerity to Affluence
In Chapter 5 I looked at the cultural impact that holiday camps had for families in Britain after the Second World War, and how the film Holiday Camp appeared to respond to this. In this chapter I aim to look at the increasing affluence of the 1950s and 1960s, and how this appears to have been negotiated, ideologically, in the types of holidays seen in British films of the period. To begin with I consider the legacy of postwar British holiday fil…
The death of ‘traditional’ charivari and the invention of pot-banging in Spain, c .1960–2020
Banging together pots and pans has become established as a common protest technique in Spain and across the world. Pot-banging can be linked to charivari: a centuries-old, Europe-wide, nuptial practice that subjected a marrying couple to mocking moral critique, which was also adapted for political ends. This article, however, distinguishes between nuptial charivari (the cencerrada) and recent political pot-banging (the cacerolada). The former suf…
Introduction – Activist times
Understandings of time have long formed a fundamental part of political ideologies and served to structure political action. The articles in this special issue of the European Review of History explore different ways in which different groups of activists have drawn on, experienced or projected different understandings of time in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century, often in contexts shaped by substantial upheaval and uncertainty. …
The Bones of Contention
The secularizing efforts of the Spanish Second Republic met fierce resistance from Catholics and the Church. Local authorities spearheaded secularization in an unclear legal context, yet they also attempted to mediate between different demands, while protecting Catholic sentiment and respecting property rights. Cemeteries and funeral processions were a key battleground in a ‘culture war’ which straddles the nineteenth-century preoccupation with t…
The Changing Face of the Amateur Holiday Film In Britain as Constructed by Post-War Amateur Cine World (1945-1951)
Amateur filmmaking, motoring and holidaymaking were three complementary leisure activities which re-emerged with a greater intensity for middle-class consumers in the immediate postwar period. The end of restrictions on travel, an increasing availability of film stock, and the first real chance to take advantage of the Holidays With Pay Act, (the latter of which had been disrupted by World War II) created new opportunities for cine enthusiasts to…
The Holiday and British Film
A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema – the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s
Interrogating National Identity in the Recent British Holiday Film
In Chapter 7 I considered how holiday films of the 1970s ideologically reconstructed a sense of Britishness through their representation of the ‘traditional’ holiday at the seaside, in holiday camps and at caravan parks, in a period of economic and cultural crisis. Representations of the British embarking on foreign holidays can also be found in this period, for example in Carry On Abroad and Are You Being Served? These films — although ‘sending …
Conclusion
Throughout this book I have argued that the holiday film can ideologically construct feelings of national identity through its representation of the traditional British holiday. I concluded Chapter 8 by saying that national identity is not ‘fixed’ and that it is an ideological concept that shifts and changes over time. By analysing the holiday film across a century of cinema it may be expected that a number of different representations of nationa…
From Austerity to Affluence
In Chapter 5 I looked at the cultural impact that holiday camps had for families in Britain after the Second World War, and how the film Holiday Camp appeared to respond to this. In this chapter I aim to look at the increasing affluence of the 1950s and 1960s, and how this appears to have been negotiated, ideologically, in the types of holidays seen in British films of the period. To begin with I consider the legacy of postwar British holiday fil…
The Changing Face of the Amateur Holiday Film In Britain as Constructed by Post-War Amateur Cine World (1945-1951)
Amateur filmmaking, motoring and holidaymaking were three complementary leisure activities which re-emerged with a greater intensity for middle-class consumers in the immediate postwar period. The end of restrictions on travel, an increasing availability of film stock, and the first real chance to take advantage of the Holidays With Pay Act, (the latter of which had been disrupted by World War II) created new opportunities for cine enthusiasts to…
Fin d’un monde ouvrier. Liévin, 1974
In the early hours of 27 December 1974, there was an explosion in a coalmine in Liévin, a commune southwest of Lens. Forty-one lost their lives instantly, while another individual died the following day. It is this mining accident—the most serious in post-war France—that is the main focus of Fontaine’s study, which combines both a careful and meticulous reconstruction of the ramifications and interpretations of the event at local level with a wid…
Representations of the family in postwar British amateur film
This article examines the construction of the postwar British family in amateur film with reference to the Sidney Lane and Cecil Scrutton collection held at the East Anglian Film Archive (EAFA), particularly the films covering 1948 – 1961. Heather Norris Nicholson argues that home movies contribute to ‘an understanding of leisure and visual-related practices of consumption as well as the social processes by which people came to give themselves, a…
Painted Tonsures and Potato-sellers
The Asturian revolutionary insurrection of 1934 saw the greatest outburst of anticlerical bloodletting in Spain for a century and prefigured the dramatic wave of anticlerical violence during the Spanish Civil War. Scholars have neglected, however, to study the experience of clerical survival. This article analyses how members of the clergy survived the insurrection through the prism of passing, concentrating on cleric's dress, gestures and revolu…
Radicalisation, Community and the Politics of Protest in the Spanish Second Republic
In October 1934 thousands of leftists took up arms in a two-week revolutionary insurrection in the northern Spanish region of Asturias which shook the Second Republic (1931–1936) and formed part of a critical European juncture of protest in 1934. This article rethinks the process of radicalisation—a key process for understanding both the insurrection and the wider polarisation of Spanish society prior to the Civil War—in the context of the Asturi…
The Bones of Contention
The secularizing efforts of the Spanish Second Republic met fierce resistance from Catholics and the Church. Local authorities spearheaded secularization in an unclear legal context, yet they also attempted to mediate between different demands, while protecting Catholic sentiment and respecting property rights. Cemeteries and funeral processions were a key battleground in a ‘culture war’ which straddles the nineteenth-century preoccupation with t…
Nothing Compares to the Past
Processes of industrial decline have often generated nostalgia phenomena in the affected communities based on the more or less idealised memory of a past time of prosperity that disappeared as the chimneys went out (‘smokestack nostalgia’, this has been called sometimes). In an earlier time, the development of industries and mining had resulted in the configuration of well-defined social structures and socio-political frameworks. Class identity, …
Introduction – Activist times
Understandings of time have long formed a fundamental part of political ideologies and served to structure political action. The articles in this special issue of the European Review of History explore different ways in which different groups of activists have drawn on, experienced or projected different understandings of time in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century, often in contexts shaped by substantial upheaval and uncertainty. …
Paul Preston. A People Betrayed
Paul Preston’s A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1876–2016 chronicles Spain’s history from the mid-1870s to the present day, with a focus on venality and corruption in the political world. The product of fifty years of research, it synthesizes Preston’s long list of publications dedicated to understanding twentieth-century Spain. Yet A People Betrayed could paradoxically only b…
The death of ‘traditional’ charivari and the invention of pot-banging in Spain, c .1960–2020
Banging together pots and pans has become established as a common protest technique in Spain and across the world. Pot-banging can be linked to charivari: a centuries-old, Europe-wide, nuptial practice that subjected a marrying couple to mocking moral critique, which was also adapted for political ends. This article, however, distinguishes between nuptial charivari (the cencerrada) and recent political pot-banging (the cacerolada). The former suf…
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