M. Boyce

Gebundenes Buch

The Lasting Influence of the War on Postwar British Film

Beschreibung

Analyzing a selection of popular British films and stars of post-WWII Britain, Boyce considers the profound anxieties and uncertainties the war had on British life and culture.

Autor

MICHAEL W. BOYCEAssistant Professor and Chair of the English and Film Studies Program at Booth University College, Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-11689-4
• 2012 edition
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780230116894
• ISBN-10: 0230116892
• Artikelnr.: 33865582

Rezensionen

"With scrupulous and brilliant close analysis of key films and stars, Boyce reveals and complicates a new era of 'Britishness' in the immediate postwar years, one irrevocably marked by war trauma. In remarkably clear prose, The Lasting Influence of the War on Postwar British Film illustrates a social and historical unconscious that has largely been ignored yet emerges as a crucial period in the history of British cinema and nation (re)building." - Dina Smith, associate professor of English, Drake University

'Like Raymond Durgnat's and Charles Barr's exceptional studies of English cinema, Michael Boyce's work combines highly informed and nuanced cultural commentary with elegant close readings of individual films. Boyce offers surprising insights on a great many topics, from the strained rhetoric of accommodation and the beleaguered assertions of resistance dramatized in such 'conservative' films as Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve to the oblique, searching commentary on children displaced from their homes during the war in the adaptations of Dickens novels. Again and again, Boyce overturns received ideas about performers and genres in the austere, post-war environment, and does so in a manner that is witty, self-questioning, and alive to narrative pleasures of every sort.' - George Toles, University of Manitoba