TPL - Thatcher's Speech (Assessment)

Question 1

Richard Eyre offers several ______ clues designed to ensure that the viewer sees the Prime Minister’s speech as a fraudulent performance.

Answer 1

Visual

Question 2

The most effective of the devices used to cast a pall of deceitfulness over Thatcher’s speech involves frequent _______ between images of the Prime Minister at the Conference podium and shots of those model Thatcherites, James, Jeremy and Susan on the Conference floor and in the Press balcony during the moments when the truth finally emerges about the network of lies underpinning their triangular relationship.

Answer 2

Cutting

Question 3

Eyre’s other main device for destroying Thatcher’s credibility involves a reprise of the technique used in the _________ commercial scene.

Answer 3

Television

Question 4

Tight shots communicating the televisions audience’s view of Thatcher – standing impressively at the centre of a raised platform, flanked by Conservative luminaries and in front of a brilliant blue backdrop on which is described the slogan, ‘The _______ Approach’ – are interspersed with longer shots intended to draw attention to the technicians and to the clutter of cameras and cables responsible for the creation of the televisual image.

Answer 4

Resolute

Question 5

The only difference, it is suggested, between Gold and ____ on the one hand and Thatcher on the other is that, whereas they are selling books and lager, she is selling a new right image of the nation.

Answer 5

Fox

Question 6

Who is Fox?

Answer 6

He is a television commercial maker.

Question 7

Who is Fox married to?

Answer 7

Ann Barrington

Question 8

By the end of The Ploughman’s Lunch, Thatcherism has been shown up as cynical, manipulative and _________.

Answer 8

Dishonest

Question 9

Oppositional political voices are restricted either to the classroom, as is the case with the polytechnic lecturer who offers his students a critical assessment of Britain’s role in the Suez crisis, or to private gatherings such as the dinner party during which ______ and Ann Barrington discuss contemporary Britain from a socialist perspective.

Answer 9

Jacek

Question 10

Much the same is true of overtly nonpolitical but nevertheless alternative discourses.

The poet, Edward, for instance, publishes in the specialist Times Literary Supplement rather than in a mass market newspaper and gives readings in half empty community halls while the voice of religious belief is heard only once in the film and then by the small group of mostly elderly, ______ _____ mourners who attend Mrs Penfield’s funeral.

Answer 10

Working class