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The Holiday and British Film
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A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema – the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The British Holiday Film and Its Audience
- 2 Theorising the Holiday
- 3 The Postcard Comes to Life: Early British Film and the Seaside
- 4 Holidays With Pay: The Working Holidays of the 1930s
- 5 Reconstructing the Family Holiday: The Holiday Camp in Postwar British Film
- 6 From Austerity to Affluence: Holidays Abroad in Postwar British Film
- 7 Grim Nostalgia and the Traditional British Holiday of the 1970s
- 8 Interrogating National Identity in the Recent British Holiday Film
- Conclusion: Summarising Representations of National Identity in the British Holiday Film
- Select Filmography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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