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The lasting influence of the war on postwar British film

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The lasting influence of the war on postwar British film/ Michael W. Boyce.
Author:	Boyce, Michael W.,
Published:	New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (212 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Motion pictures - History - 20th century. - Great Britain -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137015044
ISBN:	9781137015044 (electronic bk.)

The lasting influence of the war on postwar British film
Boyce, Michael W.,1975-

The lasting influence of the war on postwar British film[electronic resource] /Michael W. Boyce. - New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (212 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references.

PART I: GENDER -- The Power of Choice: Complicating Traditional Female Identity -- Celia Johnson -- Deborah Kerr -- Performing Masculinity: Duty, Confinement, and Stiff Upper Lips -- Michael Redgrave -- Alec Guinness -- PART II: GENRE -- Toward a Reading of British Film Noir: Expatriates &Ancient Cities -- Carol Reed's The Third Man -- Jules Dassin's Night and the City -- PART III: RETELLING NATIONAL NARRATIVE -- Adapting Shakespeare: Once More Unto the Breach -- Laurence Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III -- Adapting Dickens: Orphans, Parents, and Post-War Britain -- David Lean's Great Expectations -- David Lean's Oliver Twist -- Alberto Calvalcanti's Nicholas Nickleby -- Brian Desmond Hurst's Scrooge.

Many of the most celebrated British films of the immediate post-war period (1945-55) seem to be occupied with getting on with life and offering distraction for postwar audiences.While the war itself is rarely mentioned in these films, the war and the conditions of postwar society lie at the heart of understanding them. Michael W. Boyce considers the preoccupation of these films with profound anxieties and uncertainties about what life was going to be like for postwar Britain, what roles men and women would play, how children would grow up, even what it meant - and what it still means today - to be British.

ISBN: 9781137015044 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613615312

Source: 580475Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

835463
Motion pictures
--History--Great Britain--20th century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN1993.5. G7 / B64 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 791.430941/09042

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