Crisis, Conflict and Culture: National Identity in British Contemporary Thrillers

This doctoral dissertation aims to interrogate the expression of British identities in contemporary thriller films (2000-2016), a period defined by events that challenged prevalent notions of nationhood and national identity in Great Britain. Through the analysis of a corpus with different subgenres...

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Autor: Ortega Martín, Diana
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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spelling Crisis, Conflict and Culture: National Identity in British Contemporary ThrillersCrisis, conflicto y cultura: Identidad nacional en el thriller contemporáneo británicoOrtega Martín, Diana821.111(043.2)filología inglesaFilología inglesa5701.07 Lengua y LiteraturaThis doctoral dissertation aims to interrogate the expression of British identities in contemporary thriller films (2000-2016), a period defined by events that challenged prevalent notions of nationhood and national identity in Great Britain. Through the analysis of a corpus with different subgenres within thrillers, this study examines how the genre interacts with the anxieties regarding British national identity that have generated a crisis culminating in the Brexit referendum. The research argues that thrillers can be considered a critical tool for the analysis of tensions and contradictions within British identities, as they contain the same conflicts in their inner structure. Therefore, this work focuses on the period between the turn of the millennium and the Brexit referendum, which has often been overlooked in academic discussions of thriller films, intending to fill a gap in the existing literature. It intends two interrelated research questions. Firstly, it seeks to study how thrillers can contribute to our knowledge of British national identity and how the genre’s inner structure matches the complexities, tensions, and conflicts defining national identity. More specifically, however, it investigates how British thrillers from the selected period engage with the tensions surrounding Britain’s national identity crisis...Universidad Complutense de MadridValls Oyarzun, EduardoUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20262026-02-0520262026-02-05doctoral thesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/131572reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/1315722026-06-02T12:44:21Z
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Crisis, conflicto y cultura: Identidad nacional en el thriller contemporáneo británico
title Crisis, Conflict and Culture: National Identity in British Contemporary Thrillers
spellingShingle Crisis, Conflict and Culture: National Identity in British Contemporary Thrillers
Ortega Martín, Diana
821.111(043.2)
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title_short Crisis, Conflict and Culture: National Identity in British Contemporary Thrillers
title_full Crisis, Conflict and Culture: National Identity in British Contemporary Thrillers
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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filología inglesa
Filología inglesa
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filología inglesa
Filología inglesa
5701.07 Lengua y Literatura
description This doctoral dissertation aims to interrogate the expression of British identities in contemporary thriller films (2000-2016), a period defined by events that challenged prevalent notions of nationhood and national identity in Great Britain. Through the analysis of a corpus with different subgenres within thrillers, this study examines how the genre interacts with the anxieties regarding British national identity that have generated a crisis culminating in the Brexit referendum. The research argues that thrillers can be considered a critical tool for the analysis of tensions and contradictions within British identities, as they contain the same conflicts in their inner structure. Therefore, this work focuses on the period between the turn of the millennium and the Brexit referendum, which has often been overlooked in academic discussions of thriller films, intending to fill a gap in the existing literature. It intends two interrelated research questions. Firstly, it seeks to study how thrillers can contribute to our knowledge of British national identity and how the genre’s inner structure matches the complexities, tensions, and conflicts defining national identity. More specifically, however, it investigates how British thrillers from the selected period engage with the tensions surrounding Britain’s national identity crisis...
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