TPL - Inclusion and Exclusion (Assessment) Flashcards
As constructed by the director Eyre, the social world that James Penfield is ambitious to join excludes not just the lower classes but also black people and ________.
Socialists
None of James’s colleagues at the BBC is black and the crowds who feature in several London street scenes only once include a black person, in the shape of the universally ignored street sweeper.
Even in the Brixton neighbourhood where he lives in obvious anticipation of being in the forefront of a wave of gentrification, Penfield only once encounters black people, a group of boys playing ________ in front of his lock-up garage.
Football
Besides being white, the people with whom James Penfield works at the BBC are never heard to express any opinions even vaguely to the ____ of centre.
Left
Penfield’s goal is to advance his relationship with her Thatcherite daughter, Susan, and to obtain information for a book on the _____ crisis that he is preparing for the right-wing Goldbooks.
Suez
Although the women at the Peace Camp treat him as a ‘friend’ and lend him tools to mend his flat tire, Penfield later dismisses them as ‘vegetarians, hippies, disturbed housewives…, ___’
Mad
Encountering the Peace Women again as they demonstrate outside the _______ Conference Centre during the Conservative Party Conference, Penfield walks by without a second glance.
Brighton
Because of their marginalization the poor, black and left wing people occasionally encountered by James Penfield serve simply to underline the social and racial homogeneity and political _________ of the Britain depicted in The Ploughman’s Lunch.
Conservatism
Although free to pursue their own agenda without the supposedly corrupting influence of alien forces, the Thatcherite elite Penfield aspires to join nevertheless turns out to be uniformly selfish, manipulative, materialistic and, above all, ________.
Deceitful
The sharpest critique of ____________ is to be found in those parts of The Ploughman’s Lunch that bring James Penfield into contact with the publisher, Gold.
Entrepreneurship
The crassly materialistic _____ is particularly evident during the scene in which the publisher lunches with James Penfield at Langan’s in Piccadilly.
The restaurant, which is plushly furnished and bathed in a rich golden glow, is a kind of temple to the pleasures of expensive food and drink and _____ seems determined to make the most of what it has to offer.
Gold
Gold is distracted from Penfield’s enthusiastic monologue about his proposed book on the Suez crisis first by appearance of a trolley laden with desserts, then by the waiter’s offer of coffee, about which he speaks to James with his mouth full, and finally by the ordering and flaming sambuccas.
After lunch, the cigar-puffing Gold leads James into Burlington Arcade, another shrine to conspicuous consumption, where he abruptly terminates their conservation by plunging into a shop in pursuit of something that has caught his eye in the window display.
Arguably, it is greedy materialist such as Gold who represent the true spirit of Thatcher’s much vaunted _________ culture.
Enterprise
The film seems to be critical of the connection developed by Thatcher between the nurturing of an entrepreneurial spirit and the rekindling of the nation’s _______ and moral core.
Spiritual
James Penfield is a BBC television journalist.
True or false?
False
James Penfield is writing a book on…
The Suez Crisis
Who is Jacek?
A guest at Ann Barrington’s country house
