State and Spectacle: Riot and the Cinematic Aesthetics of the Metropolitan Police

我的研究有两个中心目标——分析大都会警察部队的美学表现，并了解它们如何与围绕Tiratelli所谓的伦敦公共空间的“情境动态”的监测、控制和表现的更广泛的话语相交和相互作用。聚焦于三个关键的历史时刻，1958年的诺丁山骚乱，1985年的布里克斯顿骚乱和2011年的伦敦骚乱，我将探索警察部队被可视化的方式的变化——以及他们自己的可视化——无论是在日常公共生活中的角色，还是在骚乱和壮观的政治分歧的时刻。我的研究将涉及这些表现形式与英国身份、种族、法律和秩序等更广泛的话语相交的不断变化的方式。

My research has two central aims - to analyse aesthetic representations of the Metropolitan Police Forceand to understand how they intersect and interact with the wider discourses around the monitoring,control and representation of what Tiratelli has called the 'situational dynamics' of public space inLondon. Focusing on three key historical moments, the Notting Hill Riots of 1958, the Brixton Riots of1985 and the London Riots of 2011, I will explore the changing ways in which police forces have beenvisualised - and visualise themselves - both in terms of their role in everyday public life and in momentsof riot and spectacular political dissensus. My research will engage with the changing ways theserepresentations have intersected with the broader discourses of British identity, race and law and order.