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UNINA9910449831903321 |
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Autore |
Geraghty Christine |
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Titolo |
British cinema in the fifties : gender, genre, and the 'new look' / / Christine Geraghty |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
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9780203190408 |
0-203-19040-8 |
1-134-69465-2 |
1-280-32861-4 |
0-203-13572-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Collana |
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Communication and society |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motion pictures - Great Britain - History |
Motion pictures - Social aspects - Great Britain |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; The experience of picturegoing: cinema as a social space; Modernity, the modern and fifties Britain; Rural rebels and the landscape of opposition; Resisting modernity: comedies of bureaucracy and expertise; The post-war settlement and women's choices: melodrama and realism in Ealing drama; European relations: sex, politics and the European woman; The Commonwealth film and the liberal dilemma; Reconstituting the family: 'It's for the children that I'm worried' |
Femininity in the fifties: the new woman and the problem of the female starThe fifties war film: creating space for the triumph of masculinity; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In British Cinema 1945-63, Christine Geraghty examines some of the most popular films of this period, exploring the ways in which they reworked contemporary social issues and themes such as national identity. |
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