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Realism and tinsel :

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Realism and tinsel :

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cinema and society in Britain, 1939-1949 /

Robert Murphy.

New York :

Routledge,

1992.

1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) :

illustrations

Cinema and society

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-265) and indexes.

Cover -- Also available in the Cinema and Society series -- Realism and Tinsel -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Britain Alone -- Phoney war films -- Britain alone -- Hands across the ocean -- 2 War Culture -- Dissenting voices -- War culture -- Wartime populism -- 3 Realism and Tinsel -- Ealing and the Realist tradition -- The Gainsborough melodramas -- Women and Realism -- 4 The Rank Empire -- Independent producers -- A Tale of Two Cities -- Rank: monopolist or benevolent patron? -- Challenge to Hollywood -- 5 Great Expectations -- Plans and dreams -- Ealing's social conscience -- The Boxes at Gainsborough -- Del Giudice strikes out -- The critical establishment -- 6 Passionate Friends? -- Women in films -- Passion and restraint -- 7 Exotic Dreams -- The Boxes' costume pictures -- Ealing's costume pictures -- Literary adaptations -- The decline and fall of the British costume film -- 8 The Spiv Cycle -- The rise of the spiv -- Wide boys and good-time girls -- Order is restored -- 9 Morbid Burrowings -- Shadows are my friends -- Brain damage -- Hunted heroes -- The murderers are among us -- Male tormentors -- D for disgusting -- 10 Nothing to Laugh at at All -- The music-hall tradition -- Upper-class comedy -- Ealing comedy -- 11 Challenge to Hollywood -- Rank and the British market -- Extravagance in production -- The NFFC -- The Plant Report and the Eady Levy -- Conclusion -- Chronology: Cinema and Society in the Forties -- 1940 -- 1941 -- 1942 -- 1943 -- 1944 -- 1945 -- 1946 -- 1947 -- 1948 -- 1949 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Film Titles -- General Index.

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First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Realism and tinsel.

Motion pictures-- Great Britain-- History.

Motion pictures-- Social aspects-- Great Britain.

Cinéma-- Aspect social-- Grande-Bretagne.

Cinéma-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire.

Motion pictures-- Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

PERFORMING ARTS-- Film & Video-- Reference.

Great Britain.

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