John Mills and British Cinema : Masculinity, Identity and Nation.

By: Plain, GillMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780748626618Subject(s): Masculinity in motion pictures | Mills, John, -- 1908-2005 | Motion picture actors and actresses -- Great Britain | Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History and criticism | Nationalism in motion pictures | World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the warGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: John Mills and British Cinema : Masculinity, Identity and NationDDC classification: 791.43028092 LOC classification: PN2598.M545 -- P53 2006ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- 1 Introduction: Acting English -- Part I -- 2 A British Cagney? Cinema and self-definition in the 1930s -- 3 Mills at War, 1940-45: The nation incarnate? -- Part II -- 4 A Cautionary Note: Great expeditions and the postwar world -- Part III -- 5 Dead Men,Angry Men and Drunks: Post-traumatic stress and the 1950s -- 6 The Spectre of Impotence: Fathers, lovers and defeated authority -- 7 Playing the Fool: Comedy and the end of Everyman -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book asks how was it possible for an actor to embody national identity and, by exploring the cultural contexts in which Mills and the nation became synonymous, the book offers a new perspective on 40 years of cinema and social change.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- 1 Introduction: Acting English -- Part I -- 2 A British Cagney? Cinema and self-definition in the 1930s -- 3 Mills at War, 1940-45: The nation incarnate? -- Part II -- 4 A Cautionary Note: Great expeditions and the postwar world -- Part III -- 5 Dead Men,Angry Men and Drunks: Post-traumatic stress and the 1950s -- 6 The Spectre of Impotence: Fathers, lovers and defeated authority -- 7 Playing the Fool: Comedy and the end of Everyman -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book asks how was it possible for an actor to embody national identity and, by exploring the cultural contexts in which Mills and the nation became synonymous, the book offers a new perspective on 40 years of cinema and social change.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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