1st Edition
Realism and Tinsel Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48
By Robert Murphy
Copyright 1992
292 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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With themes ranging from passion and romance to murder and psychological disturbance, popular British film in the 1940s found little favour with the critics, but provided thrills and entertainment for millions of people during a time of austerity and danger. Realism and Tinsel looks beyond the established histories of Ealing Comedies and realist classics to excavate a rich but neglected tradition... Read more
1 Britain Alone 2 War Culture 3 Realism and Tinsel 4 The Rank Empire 5 Great Expectations 6 Passionate Friends 7 Exotic Dreams 8 The Spiv Cycle 9 Morbid Burrowing 10 Nothing to Laugh at at All 11 Challenge to Hollywood
Biography
Robert Murphy
`Pursuing his theory in lively style and with examination of a large number of productions, the author has written an unfailingly interesting study, fully documented and concluding with a useful chronology of cinema society through the period.' - Film Review
`Robert Murphy ... has broken new ground, not only in covering the British cinema in the forties as a whole, but in looking beyond the critical orthodoxy ...' - Eric Braun, The Stage and Television Today
`...very well documented, gracefully written, and convincingly argued.' - Choice
`...[a] welcome addition to the impressive `Cinema and Society' series...' - History Today
Sight and Sound praised: `... the readiness, indeed eagerness, of Murphy's study to browse along not just the main thoroughfare of 1940s British Cinema ... but also an assortment of back streets: By-Ways for variety and radio stars.'
`Pursuing his theory in lively style and with examination of a large number of productions, the author has written an unfailingly interesting study, fully documented and concluding with a useful chronology of cinema society through the period.' - Film Review
`... elegant and clearly written ...' - Michael Paris, History Today
`Robert Murphy ... has broken new ground, not only in covering the British cinema in the forties as a whole, but in looking beyond the critical orthodoxy ...' - Eric Braun, The Stage and Television Today
`... solidly researched ... a detailed and straightforward account of the hundreds of British films turned out during the period ...' - J.K.L. Walker, Times Literary Supplement
