Research Catalog

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Description

1. viii, 196 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film and melodrama. By focusing on these genres, and looking at the concept of melodrama as an analytical tool apt for the analysis of both sexuality and nation, the book offers insight into the desires, fears, and anxieties of post-war culture. The problem of returning to 'normalcy' after the war is one of the recurring themes discussed; alienation from society, family, and the self were central issues for both women and men in the post-war years, and the book examines the anxieties surrounding these social changes in the films of the period. In particular, it explores heterosexuality and nationality as some of the most prominent frameworks for the construction of identities in our time; structures that, for all their centrality, are made invisible in our culture"--

Series statement

1. Routledge advances in film studies ; 59

Uniform title

1. Routledge advances in film studies ; 59.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Motion pictures > Great Britain > History > 20th century
3. Melodrama in motion pictures
4. Crime films > Great Britain > History and criticism
5. Nationalism in motion pictures
6. Sex in motion pictures
7. Crime films
8. Motion pictures
9. Great Britain

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Contents

1. History and myth -- "Bloody uncomfortable" : from war to post-war -- Inside, outside, and somewhere in-between : race and sexuality -- Melodramas in the post-war -- Identities and their theories -- "Lest we forget" : national memories and collective oblivions -- Male amnesiacs in Caravan and The October man -- Displaced trauma in Madonna of the Seven Moons and the Seventh veil -- "We'll need good citizens when this is over" -- Masculine horror and feminine melancholy in post-war Ealing : Dead of night and It always rains on Sunday -- Rebelling against normative temporality in The wicked lady and A matter of life and death -- Language and identity -- Pathological families and nationalisms in The blue lamp and Odd man out -- Making names in The long memory and The magic bow.

Call number

1. MFL 18-2406

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-179), filmography (pages [181-190]) and index.

Author

1. Laitila, Johanna, author.

Title

1. Melodrama, self and nation in post-war British popular film / Johanna Laitila.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Routledge advances in film studies ; 59
2. Routledge advances in film studies ; 59.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-179), filmography (pages [181-190]) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

LCCN

1. 2018011423

ISBN

1. 9781138482753 hardcover
2. 1138482757 hardcover

Research call number

1. MFL 18-2406