Christine Geraghty

British Cinema in the Fifties

Gender, Genre and the 'New Look'

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Produktbeschreibung

In the 1950s, British cinema won large audiences with popular war films and comedies. This text explores some of the key debates about British cinema and film theory, and examines the curious mix of rebellion and conformity which marked British cinema in the post-war era.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 163mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415171571
• ISBN-10: 0415171571
• Artikelnr.: 21622023

Autorenporträt

Christine Geraghty is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of Women and Soap Opera (Polity, 1991), the co-editor of The Television Studies Book (Arnold, 1998) and has contributed essays on British cinema to a number of important collections.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface 1. The Experience of Picturegoing: Cinema as a
Social Space 2. Modernity, the Modern and Fifties Britain 3. Rural Rebels
and the Landscape of Opposition 4. Resisting Modernity: Comedies of
Bureaucracy and Expertise 5. The Post-War Settlement and Women's Choices:
Melodrama and Realism in Ealing Drama 6. European Relations: Sex, Politics
and the European Woman 7. The Commonwealth Film and the Liberal Dilemma 8.
Reconstituting the Family: 'It's for Children that I'm Worried.' 9.
Femininity in the Fifties: The New Woman and the Problem of the Female Star
10. The Fifties War Film: Creating Space for the Triumph of Masculinity