Analyzing a selection of popular British films and stars of post-WWII Britain, Boyce considers the profound anxieties and uncertainties the war had on British life and culture. MICHAEL W. BOYCEAssistant Professor and Chair of the English and Film Studies Program at Booth University College, Canada. INDICE: PART I: GENDER - The Power of Choice: Complicating Traditional Female Identity - Celia Johnson - Deborah Kerr - Performing Masculinity: Duty, Confinement, and Stiff Upper Lips - Michael Redgrave - Alec Guinness - PART II: GENRE - Toward a Reading of British Film Noir: Expatriates &Ancient Cities - Carol Reed's The Third Man - Jules Dassin's Night and the City - PART III: RETELLING NATIONAL NARRATIVE - Adapting Shakespeare: Once More Unto the Breach - Laurence Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III - Adapting Dickens: Orphans, Parents, and Post-War Britain - David Lean's Great Expectations - David Lean's Oliver Twist - Alberto Calvalcanti's Nicholas Nickleby - Brian Desmond Hurst's Scrooge
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11689-4
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 222
- Fecha Publicación: 16/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés