The Lasting Influence of the War on Postwar British Film

by Michael W. Boyce

Book Overview

Many of the most celebrated British films of the immediate post-war period (1945-55) seem to be occupied with "getting on" with life and offering distraction for postwar audiences. It is the time of the celebrated Ealing comedies, Hue and Cry (1946) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Dickens adaptations, and the most ambitious projects of the Archers. While the war itself is rarely mentioned in these films, the war and the conditions of postwar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349297585
• ISBN13: 9781349297580
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"