{"product_id":"34if34-bfi-film-classics-9781844570409","title":"34If34 BFI Film Classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLindsay Anderson's film if...(1968), starring Malcolm McDowell as a schoolboy who leads a guerilla insurgence, imagines how repression, conformity, and fusty ritual at an English public school could lead to anarchy and bloody revolt. Its title is a sardonic nod to Rudyard Kipling's most famous poem, and its story a radical updating of Kipling's 1899 story 'Stalky and Co.,' in which prankish rebels are groomed to police the empire. Released at a time of unprecedented student uprisings in Europe and America, if...provided a peculiarly English perspective on the battle between generations - the perennial war of the romantically passionate against the corrupt, the ugly, the old, and the foolish. Though its emotional surface is authentically anti-authoritarian, its intellectual substance, as Mark Sinker argues, is rooted in a deep familiarity with the symbols of English ruling-class values. No longer a vehicle for shock or dissent, if...is today enjoyed comfortably, even nostalgically, but","brand":"British Film Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868680859991,"sku":"9781844570409","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844570409.jpg?v=1722289210","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/34if34-bfi-film-classics-9781844570409","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}