British Genres (eBook)

Cinema and Society, 1930-1960

Marcia Landy (Autor)

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2014
592 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6218-4 (ISBN)

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In this unprecedented survey of British cinema from the 1930s to the New Wave of the 1960s, Marcia Landy explores how cinematic representation and social history converge. Landy focuses on the genre film, a product of British mass culture often dismissed by critics as "e;unrealistic,"e; showing that in England such cinema subtly dramatized unresolved cultural conflicts and was, in fact, more popular than critics have claimed. Her discussion covers hundreds of works--including historical films, films of empire, war films, melodrama, comedy, science-fiction, horror, and social problem films--and reveals their relation to changing attitudes toward class, race, national identity, sexuality, and gender. Landy begins by describing the status and value of genre theory, then provides a history of British film production that illuminates the politics and personalities connected with the major studios. In vivid accounts of the films within each genre, she analyzes styles, codes, and conventions to show how the films negotiate history, fantasy, and lived experience. Throughout Landy creates a dynamic sense of genre and of how the genres shape, not merely reflect, cultural conflicts.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Acting • Alec Guinness • another woman • Appeasement • Barbara Payton • Beveridge Report • Black Narcissus • Blake Edwards • british institution • Carol Reed • Castration Anxiety • Censorship • Charles Laughton • Clarissa • cruelty • culture industry • David Tomlinson (actor) • Deborah Kerr • Dennis Price • Diana Dors • dirk bogarde • Don Juanism • Duff Cooper • Ealing Studios • Edgar Wallace • Film noir • Genre • Gert and Daisy • Hammer Film Productions • Hartley Power • His Family • horror fiction • horror film • Ideology • imperialism • Impossibility • James Whale • Kathleen Harrison • Kipps • Lady Godiva • Leave Her to Heaven • Leslie Banks • Love and Death • Magic Square • Malcolm Muggeridge • Margaret Rutherford • Melodrama • Men of Two Worlds • Miles Malleson • misogyny • Narcissism • narrative • Nazism • Old Bones of the River • Parody • Patricia Roc • "Pimpernel" Smith • Pornography • Private Property • Promiscuity • Prostitution • Psychoanalysis • Puritans • Racism • ridicule • Rome Express • Romeo and Juliet • Ryan's Daughter • Satire • Second Husband • Sexual Desire (book) • social conflict • Social problem film • Struggle (TV series) • Subversion • Superiority (short story) • The Bad Lord Byron • The Bridge on the River Kwai • The Doctor's Dilemma (play) • The Gentle Sex • The Lady Vanishes • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp • The Next of Kin • The October Man • The Other Hand • The Stars Look Down • The Weak and the Wicked • The Wicked Lady • The Young Mr Pitt • two women • Uncle Silas • Victor Hanbury • Victoria the Great • warfare • War Film • white feather • Will Hay • William Holden • Woman's film • Young Mr. Lincoln
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6218-3 / 1400862183
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6218-4 / 9781400862184