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Film --- Mass communications --- Melodrama in motion pictures. --- Melodrama on television. --- Melodrama --- History and criticism.

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In this unprecedented survey of British cinema from the 1930s to the New Wave of the 1960s, Marcia Landy explores how cinematic representation and social history converge. Landy focuses on the genre film, a product of British mass culture often dismissed by critics as "unrealistic," showing that in England such cinema subtly dramatized unresolved cultural conflicts and was, in fact, more popular than critics have claimed. Her discussion covers hundreds of works--including historical films, films of empire, war films, melodrama, comedy, science-fiction, horror, and social problem films--and reveals their relation to changing attitudes toward class, race, national identity, sexuality, and gender. Landy begins by describing the status and value of genre theory, then provides a history of British film production that illuminates the politics and personalities connected with the major studios. In vivid accounts of the films within each genre, she analyzes styles, codes, and conventions to show how the films negotiate history, fantasy, and lived experience. Throughout Landy creates a dynamic sense of genre and of how the genres shape, not merely reflect, cultural conflicts.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Film genres -- Great Britain. --- Motion picture plays, English -- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. --- Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. --- Film --- Sociology of culture --- Great Britain --- Film genres --- Motion picture plays, English --- Motion pictures --- #SBIB:309H1326 --- 791.43-1 --- 791.43-1 Filmkunst. Films. Cinema--?-1 --- Filmkunst. Films. Cinema--?-1 --- English motion picture plays --- English drama --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- History --- Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: genres en richtingen --- Plots, themes, etc. --- History and criticism.

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Motion pictures --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- History. --- Italy --- History

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Marcia Landy's The Folklore of Consensus examines the theatricality in the Italian popular cinema of the 1930s and early 1940s, arguing that theatricality was a form of politics--a politics of style. While film critics no longer regard the commercial films of the era as mere propaganda, they continue to regard the cinema under fascism as escapist, diverting audiences from the harsh realities of life under fascism. The Folklore of Consensus problematizes the notion of escapism, examining the complexity that redeems the films from frivolity and evasion. It shifts the focus from a preoccupation with cinema as the public and spectacular purveyor of fascinating fascism to a more immediate and intimate terrain that bears on formulations about the role of mass culture then and now.

Motion pictures --- History. --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism --- Motion Pictures --- Performing Arts

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