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Philip Gillett
ISBN: 9780719062575
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Manchester University Press
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Discussing well-known films and forgotten ones which deserve reassessment, this text uses a sociological model to examine how working class people are portrayed in British feature films from the decade after World War II. It uses original statistical data to assess films' popularity with audiences.
Discussing well-known films and forgotten ones which deserve reassessment, this text uses a sociological model to examine how working class people are portrayed in British feature films from the decade after World War II. It introduces media and film students to the skills of other disciplines, while encouraging historians and sociologists to consider the value of film evidence for their own disciplines. The book is extensively referenced, using original statistical data to assess the popularity of the films with their contemporary audiences.
| ISBN | 0719062578 | | Pages | 256 | | ISBN13 | 9780719062575
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Manchester University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 386 | | Imprint | Manchester University Press | | Published in | Manchester | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 06 Mar 2003 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | Library of Congress | 2002045189 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY | 791.43655 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | List of figures | | | | | | List of tables | | | | | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | Abbreviations | | | | 1 | | Exploring a lost culture | | 1 | | 2 | | Who were the workers? | | 8 | | 3 | | The guns fall silent: recollections of war | | 26 | | 4 | | People don't lock their doors: the working-class community | | 38 | | 5 | | Family fortunes: portrayals of the working-class family | | 75 | | 6 | | Going up in the world: goodbye to the working class | | 92 | | 7 | | The wrong side of the law: who were the criminals? | | 106 | | 8 | | Going to the bad: the treatment of the young offender | | 119 | | 9 | | The Janus faces of the dance hall | | 136 | | 10 | | Echoes of applause: from music hall to celluloid | | 150 | | 11 | | Think of the kids: the postwar child in films | | 164 | | 12 | | The looking-glass world of the cinema | | 177 | | | | Appendix | | 199 | | | | Select filmography | | 206 | | | | Select bibliography | | 213 | | | | Index | | 218 |
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