Christine Geraghty

British Cinema in the Fifties

Gender, Genre and the 'New Look'

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Produktbeschreibung

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
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780415171588
• ISBN-10: 041517158X
• Artikelnr.: 22345378

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