Blackout (eBook)

Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema

Antonia Caroline Lant (Autor)

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2014
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6219-1 (ISBN)

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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 "e;Hollywood women,"e; whose extravagant appearance connoted at best unpatriotic wastefulness and at worst collaboration with the enemy. Exploring the wartime breakdown of conventional gender roles on the screen and in the audience, Antonia Lant demonstrates that many British films of the period signaled their national cinematic identity by diverging from the notion of the Hollywood star, the mainstay of commercial American motion pictures, replacing her with a deglamourized, mobilized heroine. Nevertheless, the war machine demanded that British films continue to celebrate stable and reassuring gender roles. Contradictions abounded, both within film narratives and between narrative and "e;real life."e; Analyzing films of all the major wartime studios, the author scrutinizes the efforts of realist and melodramatic texts to confront women's wartime experiences, including conscription. By combining study of contemporary posters, advertisements, propaganda notices, and cartoons with consideration of recent feminist theoretical work on the cinema, spectatorship, and history, she has produced the first book to examine the relationships among gender, cinema, and nationality as they are affected by the stresses of war.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 ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: A Canterbury Tale • Adult • Aneurin Bevan • another woman • Army Girl • bad timing • Battle of Britain • Blowup • Brief Encounter • British Film Institute • Calendar Leaves • Call It a Day • Carol Reed • Cary Grant • Cathy • Chapter 1 • civvies • Conrad Veidt • Daisy Kenyon • Deborah Kerr • Desert Victory • Dilys Powell • Ealing Studios • Emeric Pressburger • femininity • film industry • filmmaking • Film noir • Footage • For the Boys • Frank Launder • I Live in Grosvenor Square • I See a Dark Stranger • italian neorealism • Jack Zipes • Jean Arthur • Keep Your Powder Dry • Listen to Britain • London Can Take It! • manny farber • Marlene Dietrich • Melodrama • Mildred Pierce • Mildred Pierce (miniseries) • Millions Like Us • Mrs. • Muckraker • narrative • National cinema • national identity • Nationality • Nazi Agent • Now, Voyager • Olivia de Havilland • Perfect Strangers (TV series) • Piccadilly Incident • Picture Post • "Pimpernel" Smith • Powell and Pressburger • predicament • Robert de Niro • Roger Manvell • Since You Went Away • Stella Dallas (radio) • Superiority (short story) • Target for Tonight • Tender Comrade • the big sleep • The Fighting Sullivans • The Foreman Went to France • The Gentle Sex • The Great Dictator • The Lamp Still Burns • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp • The Man in Grey • The Man Who Could Work Miracles • The Marriage of Maria Braun • The Realist • The Spy in Black • The Stars Look Down • The Way Ahead • The Way to the Stars • The Wicked Lady • Tonight and Every Night • Total War • Two Thousand Women • two women • Utility clothing • Utility furniture • Vivien Leigh • Voice-Over • Waitress (musical) • war effort • warfare • Way Out (TV series) • Woman's film • Women's Land Army • Women's War • World War I • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6219-1 / 1400862191
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6219-1 / 9781400862191