SOVEREIGNTY, BREXIT, AND DUNKIRK: WINSTON CHURCHILL’S “FIGHT THEM ON THE BEACHES” SPEECH AS NATIONALIST MEMORY.

The article focuses on how Christopher Nolan's film "Dunkirk" crescendo toward the second-hand recitation of Winston Churchill's 1940 "We Shall Fight" speech—a cinematic doubling of the voice into both low and high social registers. It mentions film embeds broader historical efforts toward Britain's sovereignty so that nostalgia for precisely this moment of solidarity in Britain acquires the fungibility of transcendent historical consciousness and the extrication of Britain from Europe.