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9780415171588

British Cinema in the Fifties: Gender, Genre and the 'New Look'

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415171588

  • ISBN10:

    041517158X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2000-10-17
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

In the fifties, British cinema won large audiences with popular war films and comedies, creating stars such as Dirk Bogarde and Kay Kendall, and introducing the stereotypes of the war hero. Through a series of case studies on films as diverse asIt Always Rains onSunday,GenevieveandThe Wrong Arm of the Law, Geraghty explores some of the key debates on British cinema and film theory.

Author Biography

Christine Geraghty is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London

Table of Contents

List of Figures
xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
The experience of picturegoing: cinema as a social space
1(20)
Modernity the modern and fifties Britain
21(17)
Rural rebels and the landscape of opposition
38(17)
Resisting modernity: comedies of bureaucracy and expertise
55(21)
The post-war settlement and women's choice: melodrama and realism in Ealing drama
76(17)
European relations: sex, politics and the European woman
93(19)
The Commonwealth film an the liberal dilemna
112(21)
Reconstituting the family: `It's for the children that I'm worried'
133(22)
Femininity in the fifties: the new woman and the problem of the female star
155(20)
The fifties war film: creating space for the triumph of masculinity
175(21)
Notes 196(4)
Bibliography 200(7)
Filmography 207(6)
Index 213

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