Blackout : Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema /

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The most universal civilian privation in World War II Britain, the blackout possessed many symbolic meanings. Among its complicated implications for filmmakers was a stigmatization of film spectacle--including the display of "Hollywood women," whose extravagant appearance connoted at best...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lant, Antonia, 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women in motion pictures.
War and motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
National characteristics, British, in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Motion pictures.
Feminism and motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Cinema > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Britanniques au cinema.
Feminisme et cinema.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinema.
Cinema > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Cinema et guerre.
Femmes au cinema.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Motion pictures > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION: Cinema in Extremis
  • CHAPTER 1. Projecting National Identity
  • CHAPTER 2. The Mobile Woman: Femininity in Wartime Cinema
  • CHAPTER 3. The Blackout
  • CHAPTER 4. Processing History: The Timing of a Brief Encounter
  • CONCLUSION. From Mufti to Civvies: A Canterbury Tale
  • APPENDIX I. Bogart or Bacon: The British Film Industry during World War II
  • APPENDIX II. British Box Office Information, 1940-1950
  • SELECT FILMOGRAPHY
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.

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