British Cinema in the Fifties
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British Cinema in the Fifties

Gender, Genre and the 'New Look'

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

British Cinema in the Fifties

Gender, Genre and the 'New Look'

About this book

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 war hero, boffin and comic bureaucrat which still help to define images of British national identity. In British Cinema in the Fifties, Christine Geraghty examines some of the most popular films of this period, exploring the ways in which they approached contemporary social issues such as national identity, the end of empire, new gender roles and the care of children.
Through a series of case studies on films as diverse as It Always Rains on Sunday and Genevieve, Simba and The Wrong Arm of the Law, Geraghty explores some of the key debates about British cinema and film theory, contesting current emphases on contradiction, subversion and excess and exploring the curious mix of rebellion and conformity which marked British cinema in the post-war era.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. British cinema in the fifties
  3. Communication and society
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 The experience of picturegoing
  9. 2 Modernity, the modern and fifties Britain
  10. 3 Rural rebels and the landscape of opposition
  11. 4 Resisting modernity
  12. 5 The post-war settlement and women’s choices
  13. 6 European relations
  14. 7 The Commonwealth film and the liberal dilemma
  15. 8 Reconstituting the family
  16. 9 Femininity in the fifties
  17. 10 The fifties war film
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Filmography