Revisiting Race and Thatcherism: the Second Life of the 1980-85 Uprisings on Screen

我的项目将是对1980-85年布里克斯顿、托克斯特斯和汉兹沃斯起义中最近涌现的视听兴趣的首次全面分析和评估。在这些戏剧性的导火索期间，来自城市黑人和少数民族社区的年轻人与警察发生冲突，放火焚烧建筑物和汽车，洗劫企业。我认为，电影制作人、程序员和展览策展人最近几年重新努力，将这场骚乱重新塑造为一场反对制度化种族主义和警察暴行的黑人叛乱。为了理解这一新趋势，我将考虑新制作的移动图像媒体，包括史蒂夫·麦昆的《小斧头》(2020)等英国电视节目，以及近年来重新上映的关于起义的旧电影，包括在艺术展览和电影节上。我的项目将有三个关键成果。首先，我将分析文本本身的创新形式和主题，考察它们如何重新利用档案材料，以对英国电影和电视做出艺术上的重大贡献，并改写以种族为中心的撒切尔主义历史。其次，通过采访和观察参与这些视听材料和展览委托和制作的人，我将揭示过去十年来体制力量和社会、经济和政治气候的影响。最后，我将评估该运动对撒切尔主义的尖锐批评正在产生的伦理和政治影响。通过拒绝将种族置于撒切尔十年的边缘，这些视听文本挑战了我们今天对新自由主义的理解。通过写下这一点，我也希望将种族和起义放在正确的位置

My project will be the first comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the recent deluge of audiovisual interest in the 1980-85 uprisings in Brixton, Toxteth and Handsworth. During these dramatic flashpoints, young people from urban Black and ethnic minority communities fought with police, set buildings and cars alight, and ransacked businesses. Originally labelled as 'riots' by the British press, I argue that there has been a renewed effort by filmmakers, programmers and exhibition curators in recent years to reframe the unrest as a Black rebellion against institutionalised racism and police brutality. To understand this new trend I will consider both newly-produced moving image media, including British television programmes such as Steve McQueen's 'Small Axe' (2020), as well as older films about the uprisings that have been re-screened in recent years, including in art exhibitions and film festivals.My project will have three key outcomes. First, I will analyse the innovative forms and themes of the texts themselves, examining how they repurpose archival material to make an artistically significant contribution to British film and television and to rewrite the history of Thatcherism with race at its centre. Second, by interviewing and observing those involved in the commissioning and production of these audiovisual materials and exhibitions, I will unpick both the influence of institutional power and of the social, economic and political climate in the last decade. Finally, I will evaluate the ongoing ethical and political impact of the movement's trenchant critique of Thatcherism. By refusing to relegate race to the margins of Thatcher's decade, these audiovisual texts challenge how we understand neoliberalism today. And by writing about this, I too hope to place race and the uprisings in its rightful place