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

我的项目将是第一个全面分析和评估1980-85年布里克斯顿、托克斯泰斯和汉兹沃斯起义期间大量的视听兴趣。在这些戏剧性的爆发点，来自城市黑人和少数族裔社区的年轻人与警察发生了冲突，点燃了建筑物和汽车，洗劫了企业。最初被英国媒体称为“骚乱”，我认为，近年来，电影制作人、程序员和展览策展人重新努力将骚乱重新定义为黑人对制度化种族主义和警察暴行的反抗。为了理解这一新趋势，我将考虑新制作的动态图像媒体，包括英国电视节目，如史蒂夫·麦奎因的《小斧头》（2020），以及近年来重新放映的关于起义的老电影，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，研究它们如何重新利用档案材料，为英国电影和电视做出艺术上的重大贡献，并以种族为中心重写撒切尔主义的历史。其次，通过采访和观察那些参与这些视听材料和展览的委托和制作的人，我将分解过去十年中制度权力和社会，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所带来的持续的伦理和政治影响。通过拒绝将种族问题置于撒切尔时代的边缘，这些视听文本挑战了我们今天对新自由主义的理解。通过写这些，我也希望把种族和起义放在应有的位置

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