Heroes and Happy Endings
Class, Gender, and Nation in Popular Film and Fiction in Interwar Britain
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2017
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-0682-7 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-0682-7 (ISBN)
Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s -- .
This is a highly anticipated examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s. Departing from a prevailing emphasis on popular culture as escapist, Christine Grandy offers a fresh perspective by noting the enduring importance of class and gender divisions in the narratives read and watched by the working and middle classes between the wars. This compelling study ties contemporary concerns about ex-soldiers, profiteers, and working and voting women to the heroes, villains and love-interests that dominated a range of films and novels. Heroes and happy endings further considers the state’s role in shaping the content of popular narratives through censorship.
An important and highly readable work for scholars and students interested in cultural and social history, as well as media and film studies, this book is sure to shift our understanding of the role of mass culture in the 1920s and 1930s. -- .
This is a highly anticipated examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s. Departing from a prevailing emphasis on popular culture as escapist, Christine Grandy offers a fresh perspective by noting the enduring importance of class and gender divisions in the narratives read and watched by the working and middle classes between the wars. This compelling study ties contemporary concerns about ex-soldiers, profiteers, and working and voting women to the heroes, villains and love-interests that dominated a range of films and novels. Heroes and happy endings further considers the state’s role in shaping the content of popular narratives through censorship.
An important and highly readable work for scholars and students interested in cultural and social history, as well as media and film studies, this book is sure to shift our understanding of the role of mass culture in the 1920s and 1930s. -- .
Christine Grandy is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Lincoln -- .
Introduction: The role of popular culture between the wars
1. A man imagined: Heroes, work, and nation
2. The shape of villainy: Profiteering and money-men
3. That magic moment: The female love-interest and the villainess.
4. Building character: Censorship, the Home Office, and the British Board of Film Censors
Conclusion: Thoughts on heroes, villains, and love-interests beyond 1939
Images and Appendices
Bibliography
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.03.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Popular Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 6 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 376 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-0682-5 / 1526106825 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-0682-7 / 9781526106827 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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