British Genres : Cinema and Society, 1930-1960 /
In this unprecedented survey of British cinema from the 1930s to the New Wave of the 1960s, Marcia Landy explores how cinematic representation and social history converge. Landy focuses on the genre film, a product of British mass culture often dismissed by critics as "unrealistic," showin...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1991]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Author's Note
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. British Cinema History
- CHAPTER TWO. The Historical Film
- CHAPTER THREE. Empire, War, and Espionage Films
- CHAPTER FOUR. The War Film in War and Peace
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Woman's Film
- CHAPTER SIX. Tragic Melodramas
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Family Melodramas
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Film Comedies
- CHAPTER NINE. Horror and Science Fiction
- CHAPTER TEN. The Social Problem Film
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index.