02880nam 2200673 a 450 991082550070332120200520144314.01-134-69464-497802031904080-203-19040-81-134-69465-21-280-32861-40-203-13572-510.4324/9780203135723 (CKB)1000000000001075(EBL)166129(OCoLC)49569876(SSID)ssj0000114967(PQKBManifestationID)11143188(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114967(PQKBWorkID)10148151(PQKB)10851607(MiAaPQ)EBC166129(Au-PeEL)EBL166129(CaPaEBR)ebr5003765(CaONFJC)MIL32861(EXLCZ)99100000000000107520010702d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBritish cinema in the fifties gender, genre and the 'new look' /Christine Geraghty1st ed.London Routledge20001 online resource (240 p.)Communication and societyDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-17157-1 0-415-17158-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexIn 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.Communication and society.Motion picturesGreat BritainHistoryMotion picturesSocial aspectsGreat BritainMotion picturesHistory.Motion picturesSocial aspects791.43094109045Geraghty Christine759902MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825500703321British cinema in the fifties4105916UNINA