British cinema in the fifties : gender, genre, and the 'new look' / / Christine Geraghty

• Autore: Geraghty Christine
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43094109045
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Great Britain - History; Motion pictures - Social aspects - Great Britain
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: British cinema in the fifties
• ISBN: 1-134-69464-4; 9780203190408; 0-203-19040-8; 1-134-69465-2; 1-280-32861-4; 0-203-13572-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777077303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Communication and society.