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Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe, born 19 August 1961 in Birmingham, is a British novelist and writer. His work usually has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name, in the light of the 'carve up' of the UK's resources which some felt was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's right wing Conservative governments of the 1980s. Coe studied at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Trinity College, Cambridge, before teaching at the University of Warwick where he completed a PhD in English Literature. In July 2006 he was given an honorary degree by The University of Birmingham.-Retrieved 10:55, February 2, 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan...

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that America was a shallow, vulgar, uncivilized place. He understood the allure of the image it was at pains to present to the world – a bold, insistent image, projected in Technicolor and VistaVision – but he was immune to it. Something within him rebelled against the idea of seeing a film which celebrated this way of life, even in the guise (hypocritical, he was sure) of a lurid melodrama which purported to expose its cracks and fault line
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‘Now hold on a minute,’ said Thomas. ‘What we do at the COI can hardly be described as propaganda.’
‘Really? But what else would you call it?’
‘Well, as our name suggests, we deal in information.’
‘Yes, but it’s not as simple as that. In your publications and your exhibitions, you select certain pieces of information, and reject others. You present them in a certain way. These are political choices. We’re all doing it. That’s why we are all sitting here in Brussels. We’ve come to sell ourselves to the rest of the world.’
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