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Cold War Nostalgia in The Game
Nick Barnett 
Journal of British Cinema and Television, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Pages: 436 - 452
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Nick Barnett
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DOI (Published version): 10.3366/jbctv.2018.0431
Abstract
This article explores how nostalgia for both the Cold War and the 1970s became a key feature of the BBC drama The Game (2014). It argues that the serial situated the Cold War as a more stable era in international relations in which the enemy played by a specific set of rules, thus leading to a manag...
| Published in: | Journal of British Cinema and Television |
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| ISSN: | 1743-4521 1755-1714 |
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2018
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39065 |
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This article explores how nostalgia for both the Cold War and the 1970s became a key feature of the BBC drama The Game (2014). It argues that the serial situated the Cold War as a more stable era in international relations in which the enemy played by a specific set of rules, thus leading to a manageable and predictable danger compared to the terror threat of the twentyfirst century. Furthermore, the article argues that the serial presents the 1970s as a golden age which was defined by the continuity of consensus politics and communities of class and family. Finally, the article examines how this nostalgia is reinforced by narrative devices which engage with generic features such as the storyline playing out like a game. However, in the re-imagined Cold War of the twenty-first century, the traditional chess trope has been replaced by the more complex game of Alice Chess. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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3 |
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436 |
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452 |