| Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge advances in film studies |
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Routledge advances in film studies.
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| Contents |
History and myth -- "Bloody uncomfortable" : from war to post-war -- Inside, outside, and somewhere in-between : race and sexuality -- Melodramas in the post-war -- Identities and their theories -- "Lest we forget" : national memories and collective oblivions -- Male amnesiacs in Caravan and The October man -- Displaced trauma in Madonna of the Seven Moons and the Seventh veil -- "We'll need good citizens when this is over" -- Masculine horror and feminine melancholy in post-war Ealing : Dead of night and It always rains on Sunday -- Rebelling against normative temporality in The wicked lady and A matter of life and death -- Language and identity -- Pathological families and nationalisms in The blue lamp and Odd man out -- Making names in The long memory and The magic bow |
| Summary |
"This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film and melodrama. By focusing on these genres, and looking at the concept of melodrama as an analytical tool apt for the analysis of both sexuality and nation, the book offers insight into the desires, fears, and anxieties of post-war culture. The problem of returning to 'normalcy' after the war is one of the recurring themes discussed; alienation from society, family, and the self were central issues for both women and men in the post-war years, and the book examines the anxieties surrounding these social changes in the films of the period. In particular, it explores heterosexuality and nationality as some of the most prominent frameworks for the construction of identities in our time; structures that, for all their centrality, are made invisible in our culture"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 05/19/2020) |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Melodrama in motion pictures.
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Crime films -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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Nationalism in motion pictures.
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Sex in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Sex in motion pictures
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Nationalism in motion pictures
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Melodrama in motion pictures
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Crime films
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Crime
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Film genres
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Memory
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Motion pictures
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Sex
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Sex in popular culture
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019717083 |
| ISBN |
9781351056588 |
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1351056581 |
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9781351056564 |
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1351056565 |
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9781351056571 |
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1351056573 |
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9781351056557 |
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1351056557 |
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