{"product_id":"the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp-by-al-kennedy-9781838719104","title":"The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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. However, Martin Scorsese, a champion of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, considers it a masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s a film about desires repressed in favour of worthless and unsatisfying ideals. It also explores how England dreamt of itself as a nation and how this dream disguised inadequacy and brutality in the clothes of honour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA. 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 highlights 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599576744172,"sku":"9781838719104","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781838719104-the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp.jpg?v=1777982061","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp-by-al-kennedy-9781838719104","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}