Stephen Shafer

British Popular Films 1929-1939 (eBook, ePUB)

The Cinema of Reassurance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shafer's study challenges the conventional historical assumption that British feature films during the Thirties were mostly oriented to the middle-class. Instead, he makes the critical distinction between films intended for West End and international circulation and those intended primarily for domestic, working-class audiences. Far from being alientated by a 'middle-class institution', working men and women flocked to see pictures featuring such music-hall luminaries as Gracie Fields and George Formby.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 291
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134988365
• Artikelnr.: 47890376

Autorenporträt

Stephen Shafer

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1 INTRODUCTION
2 MYTHS AND UNSUPPORTED ASSUMPTIONS
3 DEPICTING THE WORKING CLASSES IN BRITISH FILM IN THE THIRTIES
4 MISTAKEN IDENTITIES
5 MISTAKEN IDENTITIES
6 INTER-CLASS ROMANCE
7 THEMES IN BRITISH FILMS
8 THE EMPHASIS ON COOPERATION AND SELF-SACRIFICE
9 PATRIOTISM AND CENSORSHIP
10 CONCLUSIONS
Notes
References
Index