03200nam 2200757Ia 450 991078445660332120230828214835.00-7486-5109-897866105014891-280-50148-00-7486-2661-1978074862661897807486210719780748621088(CKB)1000000000351177(EBL)264961(OCoLC)475989284(SSID)ssj0000185966(PQKBManifestationID)11939119(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185966(PQKBWorkID)10217397(PQKB)10325313(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055491(MiAaPQ)EBC264961(Au-PeEL)EBL264961(CaPaEBR)ebr10130480(CaONFJC)MIL50148(DE-B1597)615442(DE-B1597)9780748626618(OCoLC)1302165915(EXLCZ)99100000000035117720060515d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrJohn Mills and British cinema[electronic resource] masculinity, identity and nation /Gill PlainEdinburgh Edinburgh University Press20061 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-2107-5 0-7486-2108-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-248) and index.Includes filmography.Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; 1 Introduction: Acting English; 2 A British Cagney? Cinema and self-definition in the 1930's; 3 Mills at War, 1940–45: The nation incarnate?; 4 A Cautionary Note: Great expeditions and the postwar world; 5 Dead Men, Angry Men and Drunks: Post-traumatic stress and the 1950's; 6 The Spectre of Impotence: Fathers, lovers and defeated authority; 7 Playing the Fool: Comedy and the end of Everyman; Filmography; Bibliography; Index;A study of masculinity, national identity and the screen persona of the actor John Mills. This work questions how it was possible for an actor to embody national identity. It explores the cultural contexts in which Mills and the nation became synonymous, and offers a perspective on 40 years of cinema and social change.Masculinity in motion picturesMotion picture actors and actressesGreat BritainMotion picturesGreat BritainHistory and criticismNationalism in motion picturesWorld War, 1939-1945Motion pictures and the warMasculinity in motion pictures.Motion picture actors and actressesMotion picturesHistory and criticism.Nationalism in motion pictures.World War, 1939-1945Motion pictures and the war.791.43028092Plain Gill164568MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784456603321John Mills and British cinema3766896UNINA