Britain Can Take it: British Cinema in the Second World War (Cinema and Society) - Softcover

Richards, Jeffrey; Aldgate, Tony

 
9781845114459: Britain Can Take it: British Cinema in the Second World War (Cinema and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1845114450 ISBN 13: 9781845114459
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

At the outbreak of the Second World War, all cinemas in Britain were closed. Ten days later, they were opened again as a valuable way of boosting morale and a principal source of recreation for the nation at war. Feature films were not just escapist entertainment; they provided instruction and information, and over the next six years, some 300 feature films and thousands of short films and news reels were produced in what is now seen as British cinema’s ’finest hour’. "Britain Can Take It" charts this momentous period through the eyes of thirteen key films. Aldgate and Richards make use of key resources, from scripts and box-office returns to official Home Office documents and censorship archives, to bring these films to vivid life. In telling their stories, the authors also recreate the society, the politics and war-time conditions in which they appeared and flourished. This new edition of "Britain Can Take It" features a new chapter on Launder and Gilliat’s 1943 film on women factory workers, "Millions Like Us". It will be welcomed back by film scholars and historians, students and film lovers as essential reading.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Lancaster and a leading authority on Victorian popular culture, the Victorian theatre and twentieth century cinema. His study of Henry Irving (Hambledon 2005) was shortlisted for the Theatre History Book Prize. He is a regular reviewer and broadcaster.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury 3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
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ISBN 13 
9781845114459
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Anzahl der Seiten
360
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