Ripping England! : postwar British satire in the age of austerity /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rawlings, Roger, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2017.
Series:SUNY series, horizons of cinema
Subjects:
Ealing Studios > History > 20th century.
Ealing Studios
1900-1999
Comedy films > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Comedy films > United States > History > 20th century.
Films comiques > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Films comiques > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
1900 - 1999.
PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
Comedy films
Great Britain
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Economic and artistic postwar Britain
  • "Fog in channel, continent cut off": postwar British filmmakers look inward
  • The great bloodless revolution: the Ealing satires (to 1949)
  • The Ealing satires' annus mirabilus
  • Ealing at a turning point (1949 and after)
  • The special relationship: American satires of the 1940s
  • Postwar Britain faces its subconscious: Spike Milligan and the goons
  • The post-1950s satire boom: satire explodes into late 20th century
  • British popular culture
  • Epilogue: satire in postwar British and American popular culture.

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