The Falklands War on the British Screen: Plural Memories of an Occulted War

The representation of the Falklands War in British cinema is fragmentary, even elliptical, and focuses on the consequences and trauma of the conflict on the veterans or the relatives of those who died in combat. These films convey a critical discourse against institutions (government, army, media) w...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Revue LISA
Main Author:	Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Presses universitaires de Rennes 2022-06-01
Subjects:	cinema Thatcher Margaret war memory trauma Falklands
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/13983

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