TPL - Reimaging History/ History As Fabrication (Assessment) Flashcards
As described by James, the book on the Suez crisis that he pitches at ____ during lunch is a direct product of the mood of national optimism inspired by ‘this Falklands business’.
Gold
Penfield plans to develop a revisionist reading in which the war with _____ becomes both an honourable attempt to defend the ‘ideal’ of the British Empire and the last occasion when Britain acted ‘independently’ and was therefore in touch with the authentic self it has ‘discovered…again’ in the South Atlantic.
Egypt
Penfield becomes a true Thatcherite: a person for whom talk of the eternal nation and its essential spirit will never be more than a ‘performance’ designed to mask a real agenda constructed around the pursuit of power and ______.
Wealth
Most of the characters in The Ploughman’s Lunch are preoccupied with the ____ but none of them would propose that it functions as a kind of fixed reference point, a source of essential truths about the nation.
Past
The characters view history as endlessly fluid and always capable of being reshaped or ‘_________’ to serve the ends of personal profit or new right ideology.
Fabricated
Both Gold, the publisher, and Fox, a director of television commercials, are acutely aware of the money to be made from manipulating the _______.
Past
Fox allows James Penfield to watch him film a commercial that creates an idealized, nostalgic and hence falsified version of prewar, ______ class family life in order to promote a bedtime drink.
Middle
What year was the Suez crisis?
1956
What year was the Falklands war?
1982
Mathew Fox, in an ancedote that provides the film with its title, tells James Penfield that, far from being ‘traditional English fare’, the Ploughman’s Lunch is in fact ‘an invention of an advertising campaign they ran in the early sixties to encourage people to eat in _______’.
Pubs
In a climatic scene shot at the Conservative Party Conference held in Brighton shortly after the Falkland’s War, we hear Margaret Thatcher deliver a speech in which she seeks once again to dignify Britain’s victory over Argentina by locating it within a version of national history that displaces temporal realities with the concept of eternal spirit: ‘The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the world, that British patriotism was rediscovered in those spring days. Mr President, it was never really _____!’
Lost
Who directs TV commercials?
Matthew Fox
What nationality is the dinner guest of Ann Barrington’s?
Polish
What is Jeremy Hancock’s occupation?
Journalist
What is the name of James’s friend the poet?
Edward
