John Mills and British cinema : masculinity, identity and nation / Gill Plain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plain, Gill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mills, John, 1908-2005.

Mills, John.

Masculinity in motion pictures.

Motion picture actors and actresses--Great Britain.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Motion pictures--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Nationalism in motion pictures.

World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A study of masculinity, national identity and the screen persona of the actor John Mills. This work questions how it was possible for an actor to embody national identity. It explores the cultural contexts in which Mills and the nation became synonymous, and offers a perspective on 40 years of cinema and social change.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; 1 Introduction: Acting English; 2 A British Cagney? Cinema and self-definition in the 1930's; 3 Mills at War, 1940–45: The nation incarnate?; 4 A Cautionary Note: Great expeditions and the postwar world; 5 Dead Men, Angry Men and Drunks: Post-traumatic stress and the 1950's; 6 The Spectre of Impotence: Fathers, lovers and defeated authority; 7 Playing the Fool: Comedy and the end of Everyman; Filmography; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-248) and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

0-7486-5109-8

9786610501489

1-280-50148-0

0-7486-2661-1

OCLC:

475989284

Publisher Number:

9780748626618

9780748621071

9780748621088