{"product_id":"9781838719104","title":"The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): A.L. Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinston Churchill hated \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp\u003c\/i\u003e, and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943. But Martin Scorsese, a champion of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, considers it a masterpiece. It's a film about desires repressed in favour of worthless and unsatisfying ideals. And it's a film about how England dreamt of itself as a nation and how this dream disguised inadequacy and brutality in the clothes of honour. A. L. Kennedy, writing as a Scot, is fascinated by the nationalism which \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp\u003c\/i\u003e explores. She finds human worth in the film and the pathos of stifled emotions and unfulfilled lives. 'If he is unaware of his passions, ' she writes of Clive Candy, the film's central figure, 'this is because his pains have become habitual, a part of personality, and because he was never taught a language that could speak of emotions like pain.'.\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes a foreword by the author exploring the film's continuing relevance in an age of Brexit, when English and British national identity are deeply contested concepts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781838719104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"British Film Institute","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40739248210126,"sku":"9781838719104","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_16d3b592-bd9f-4ff8-859e-592f1a7207d6.jpg?v=1641359586","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781838719104","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}