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British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930-1960
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930-1960
Contributors:
By (Author) Marcia Landy
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
302.23430941
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
592
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
992g
Description
In this unprecedented survey of British cinema from the 1930s to the New Wave of the 1960s, Marcia Landy explores how cinematic representation and social history converge. Landy focuses on the genre film, a product of British mass culture often dismissed by critics as "unrealistic," showing that in England such cinema subtly dramatized unresolved c
