Realism and tinsel : cinema and society in Britain, 1939-1949
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) : illustrations
9780203392652, 9780415076845, 9786610061754, 9781134901500, 9781134901456, 9781134901494, 9781138152151, 0203392655, 0415076846, 6610061750, 113490150X, 1134901453, 1134901496, 1138152153
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Cover
Also available in the Cinema and Society series
Realism and Tinsel
Contents
List of Illustrations
General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Britain Alone
Phoney war films
Britain alone
Hands across the ocean
2 War Culture
Dissenting voices
War culture
Wartime populism
3 Realism and Tinsel
Ealing and the Realist tradition
The Gainsborough melodramas
Women and Realism
4 The Rank Empire
Independent producers
A Tale of Two Cities
Rank: monopolist or benevolent patron?
Challenge to Hollywood
5 Great Expectations
Plans and dreams
Ealing's social conscience
The Boxes at Gainsborough
Del Giudice strikes out
The critical establishment
6 Passionate Friends?
Women in films
Passion and restraint
7 Exotic Dreams
The Boxes' costume pictures
Ealing's costume pictures
Literary adaptations
The decline and fall of the British costume film
8 The Spiv Cycle
The rise of the spiv
Wide boys and good-time girls
Order is restored
9 Morbid Burrowings
Shadows are my friends
Brain damage
Hunted heroes
The murderers are among us
Male tormentors
D for disgusting
10 Nothing to Laugh at at All
The music-hall tradition
Upper-class comedy
Ealing comedy
11 Challenge to Hollywood
Rank and the British market
Extravagance in production
The NFFC
The Plant Report and the Eady Levy
Conclusion
Chronology: Cinema and Society in the Forties
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Film Titles
General Index
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