British cinema in the fifties : gender, genre and the 'new look' / Christine Geraghty.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Geraghty, Christine.

Series:

• Communication and society.
• Communication and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Motion pictures--Great Britain--History.
• Motion pictures--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In British Cinema 1945-63, Christine Geraghty examines some of the most popular films of this period, exploring the ways in which they reworked contemporary social issues and themes such as national identity.

Contents:

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; The experience of picturegoing: cinema as a social space; Modernity, the modern and fifties Britain; Rural rebels and the landscape of opposition; Resisting modernity: comedies of bureaucracy and expertise; The post-war settlement and women's choices: melodrama and realism in Ealing drama; European relations: sex, politics and the European woman; The Commonwealth film and the liberal dilemma; Reconstituting the family: 'It's for the children that I'm worried'
• Femininity in the fifties: the new woman and the problem of the female starThe fifties war film: creating space for the triumph of masculinity; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 1-134-69464-4
• 9780203190408
• 0-203-19040-8
• 1-134-69465-2
• 1-280-32861-4
• 0-203-13572-5

OCLC:

49569876