Structures of desire : British cinema, 1939-1955
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Structures of desire : British cinema, 1939-1955
（SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video）
State University of New York Press, c2000
- : hc
- : pbk
Available at 8 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines representations of desire in British cinema during a period of turbulent change. In addition to investigating male-female desire in status quo "realist" films and in various "anti-realist" movements represented by Gainsborough Melodrama and the work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the book also explores the various factors that affected utopian aspirations for a better postwar world and how these desires eventually became restrained by the dominant forces of conservative ideology. Structures of Desire provides new perspectives on previously recognized film movements such as Ealing Comedy and Gainsborough Melodrama while also offering analyses of interesting but neglected films such as Love on the Dole (1941), Perfect Strangers (1945), They Made Me a Fugitive (1947), The Bad Lord Byron (1949), and Madeleine (1950).
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Forever Gainsborough?
Chapter Three
The Wartime Archers
Chapter Four
Utopian Desires
Chapter Five
Postwar Representations
Chapter Six
Postwar Archers
Chapter Seven
Ealing and Beyond
Chapter Eight
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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