Philip Gillett

The British Working Class in Postwar Film

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses a sociological model to examine how working class people are portrayed in British feature films from the decade after World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 162mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780719062575
• ISBN-10: 0719062578
• Artikelnr.: 22336625

Autorenporträt

Philip Gillett is a freelance researcher and a writer on film.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Exploring a lost cultures 2. who were the workers? 3. the guns fall
silent: recollections of war 4. People don't lock their doors: the
working-class community 5. Family fortunes: portrayals of the working-class
family 6. Going up in the world: goodbye to the working-class 7. The wrong
side of the law: who were the criminals? 8. Going to the bad: the treatment
of the young offender 9. The Janus faces of the dance hall 10. Echoes of
applause: from music hall to cellluloid 11. Think of the kids: the postwar
child in films 12. The looking-glass world of the cinema Index