I've been trying to think of other broadly sympathetic portrayals of terrorists in UK media, and perhaps I'm missing something really obvious, but the earliest thing I can come up with is Neil Jordan's 'The Crying Game' of 1992.
Tavia
Tavia wrote:
I've been trying to think of other broadly sympathetic portrayals of
terrorists
in UK media, and perhaps I'm missing something really obvious, but the earliest thing I can come up with is Neil Jordan's 'The Crying Game' of 1992.
Robin Hood, perhaps?
Susan Beth (susanbeth33@mindspring.com)
Susan Beth wrote:
Tavia wrote:
I've been trying to think of other broadly sympathetic portrayals of
terrorists
in UK media, and perhaps I'm missing something really obvious, but the earliest thing I can come up with is Neil Jordan's 'The Crying Game' of 1992.
Robin Hood, perhaps?
'The Water Margin'.
Una
Tavia wrote:
I've been trying to think of other broadly sympathetic portrayals of
terrorists
in UK media, and perhaps I'm missing something really obvious, but the earliest thing I can come up with is Neil Jordan's 'The Crying Game' of 1992.
That was the first thing I could come up with too, then 'In the Name of the Father' in 1993, and 'Michael Collins' in 1996, which certainly blew apart the preconceptions of many of my friends. Still, I'm not sure I can think of anything on TV till the recent 'Rebel Heart'. The BBC did a TV series 'Parnell and the Englishwoman' in 1991 (?) but that's hardly about terrorism. And there was that drama about the famine with all the McGanns a couple of years ago.
I found a web resource which has a database of TV programmes about the Troubles transmitted from 1969 to 1996, if anyone's cares terribly: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/media/tvprogs.htm
Una
--- Tavia tavia@btinternet.com wrote: > I've been trying to think of other broadly
sympathetic portrayals of terrorists in UK media, and perhaps I'm missing something really obvious, but the earliest thing I can come up with is Neil Jordan's 'The Crying Game' of 1992.
Off the top of my head-- "Edge of Darkness" (1985); "Knights of God" (1987) (Gareth Thomas as a Welsh nationalist, btw!)
I have to say, too, that I'm quite fond of folk music, and there's a long tradition in British folk of celebrating highwaymen, robbers and other people whom one probably wouldn't want to meet. Dunno if you want to count that as media...
But I think you could definitely count "The Pict Song" by Rudyard Kipling.
Fiona
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