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Christine Grandy

Heroes and Happy Endings - Class, Gender, Nation in Popular Film Fiction in Interwar Britain

English · Hardback

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Description

Examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s

List of contents

Introduction: The role of popular culture between the wars
1. A man imagined: Heroes, work, and nation
2. The shape of villainy: Profiteering and money-men
3. That magic moment: The female love-interest and the villainess.
4. Building character: Censorship, the Home Office, and the British Board of Film Censors
Conclusion: Thoughts on heroes, villains, and love-interests beyond 1939
Images and Appendices
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Christine Grandy is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Lincoln

Product details

Authors	Christine Grandy
Publisher	Manchester University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	31.08.2014

EAN	9780719090936
ISBN	978-0-7190-9093-6
No. of pages	264
Series	Studies in Popular Culture Studies in Popular Culture
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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