Philip Gillett

The British working class in postwar film

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Produktbeschreibung

An incidental pleasure of watching a film is what it tells us about the society in which it is made. Using a sociological model this title looks at how working-class people were portrayed in British feature films in the decade after the Second World War. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780719062582
• ISBN-10: 0719062586
• Artikelnr.: 21766476

Autorenporträt

Philip GIllett is a freelance researcher and writer on film

Inhaltsangabe

1. Exploring a lost cultures 2. who were the workers? 3. the guns fall
silent: recollections of war 4. People don't lock their doors: the
working-class community 5. Family fortunes: portrayals of the working-class
family 6. Going up in the world: goodbye to the working-class 7. The wrong
side of the law: who were the criminals? 8. Going to the bad: the treatment
of the young offender 9. The Janus faces of the dance hall 10. Echoes of
applause: from music hall to cellluloid 11. Think of the kids: the postwar
child in films 12. The looking-glass world of the cinema Index