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Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history. Covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women's pictures and theatrical adaptations; as well as social issues which affect film-making, such as censorship. Includes fresh assessment of maverick directors; Pat Jackson, Robert Hamer and Joseph Losey, and even of a maverick critic Raymond Durgnat. Features personal insights from those individually implicated in 1950's cinema; Corin Redgrave on Michael Redgrave, Isabel Quigly on film reviewing, and Bryony Dixon of the BFI on archiving and preservation. Presents a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about 1950's film and rediscovers the Festival of Britain decade.
Motion pictures. --- Motion pictures - Great Britain - History. --- Motion pictures --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- History --- History.
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Motion pictures --- History --- 791.43 --- -#SBIB:309H1320 --- #SBIB:309H1321 --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Filmkunst. Films. Cinema --- De filmische boodschap: algemene werken (met inbegrip van algemeen filmhistorische werken en filmhistorische werken per land) --- Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: algemeen --- History and criticism --- 791.43 Filmkunst. Films. Cinema --- Motion pictures - Great Britain - History
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The most universal civilian privation in World War II Britain, the blackout possessed many symbolic meanings. Among its complicated implications for filmmakers was a stigmatization of film spectacle--including the display of "Hollywood women," whose extravagant appearance connoted at best unpatriotic wastefulness and at worst collaboration with the enemy. Exploring the wartime breakdown of conventional gender roles on the screen and in the audience, Antonia Lant demonstrates that many British films of the period signaled their national cinematic identity by diverging from the notion of the Hollywood star, the mainstay of commercial American motion pictures, replacing her with a deglamourized, mobilized heroine. Nevertheless, the war machine demanded that British films continue to celebrate stable and reassuring gender roles. Contradictions abounded, both within film narratives and between narrative and "real life." Analyzing films of all the major wartime studios, the author scrutinizes the efforts of realist and melodramatic texts to confront women's wartime experiences, including conscription. By combining study of contemporary posters, advertisements, propaganda notices, and cartoons with consideration of recent feminist theoretical work on the cinema, spectatorship, and history, she has produced the first book to examine the relationships among gender, cinema, and nationality as they are affected by the stresses of war.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.
National characteristics, British, in motion pictures. --- Sex role in motion pictures. --- World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war. --- Feminism and motion pictures. --- Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. --- Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. --- Women in motion pictures. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures and the war. --- History --- Social aspects
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Motion pictures --- Cinéma --- Motion picture industry --- Industrie du cinéma --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- History. --- Histoire --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire. --- Motion pictures - Great Britain - History and criticism --- Motion picture industry - Great Britain - History --- Cinéma --- Industrie du cinéma
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791.44 <73 HOLLYWOOD> --- 316.774:791.43 <41> --- #SBIB:309H1326 --- Filmproductie. Filmindustrie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--HOLLYWOOD --- Film als communicatiemedium. Filmsociologie--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: genres en richtingen --- 316.774:791.43 <41> Film als communicatiemedium. Filmsociologie--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 791.44 <73 HOLLYWOOD> Filmproductie. Filmindustrie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--HOLLYWOOD --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures, American --- Great Britain --- Popular culture --- History --- Civilization --- American influences --- Motion pictures - Great Britain - History --- Motion pictures, American - Great Britain - History --- Great Britain - Civilization - American influences --- Popular culture - Great Britain
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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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