The Blunt Affair Official Secrecy and Treason in Literature, Television and Film, 1980–89
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- 10 december 2020
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The Blunt Affair examines a number of significant plays, films and novels about or related to the Cambridge spies that appeared between the time of Anthony Blunt’s unmasking as the “fourth man” in late 1979 and the end of the Cold War.
The book argues that these works collectively offer a forceful response to issues that were at the forefront of British politics and culture throughout the 1980s, such as the rise in anti-gay sentiment and policies during the AIDS crisis, nuclear proliferation and the CND’s stand against it, state secrecy and the abuse of the Official Secrets Act, Thatcherism, and patriotic imperatives. It also offers a much-needed reassessment of the literary and filmic culture of the decade, arguing that these texts, by writers as diverse as Dennis Potter, Julian Mitchell, Alan Bennett, Tom Stoppard, John le Carré, Robin Chapman and Hugh Whitemore, deserve a more central place in cultural assessments of the period.
Offering a timely analysis of state secrecy, national loyalty and government overreach, The Blunt Affair will be of interest to students and scholars of twentieth-century British history and culture, particularly those working on post-war television, drama and film.
The case of the Cambridge spies has long captured the public’s attention, but perhaps never more so than in the wake of Anthony Blunt’s exposure as the fourth man in November 1979. With the Cold War intensifying, patriotism running high during the Falklands War and the AIDS crisis leading to widespread homophobia, these notorious traitors were more relevant than ever. This book explores how they were depicted in literature, television and film throughout the 1980s. Examining works by an array of distinguished writers, including Dennis Potter, Alan Bennett, Tom Stoppard and John le Carré, it sheds new light on the affair, asking why such privileged young men chose to betray their country, whether loyalty to one’s friends is more important than patriotism and whether we can really trust the intelligence services.
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