Jeffrey Richards

Films and British national identity

From Dickens to Dad's Army'

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Produktbeschreibung

Jeffrey Richards is a regular radio and television commentator on popular culture. Covers the period from Ealing Studios to Dad's Army. A great read.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780719047435
• ISBN-10: 0719047439
• Artikelnr.: 22008403

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. National Identity
EMPIRE
2. British Imperial Heroes
3. The Black Man as Hero
NATION
4. World War Two
5. National Identity Post-War
6. The Swinging Sixties and After
REGION
7. Scotland
8. Wales and Ireland
9. Lancashire
CULTURE
10. Vaughan Williams, the Cinema and England
11. Dickens - Our Contemporary
Dad's Army and the Politics of Nostalgia
Bibliography