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Structures of Desire: British Cinema, 1939-1955
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Structures of Desire: British Cinema, 1939-1955 Hardback - 2000

by Tony Williams

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Examines the cultural, historical, and ideological factors influencing British cinema during World War II and the postwar years, with attention to male-female relationships as well as to utopian desires for a better postwar world.

This book examines representations of desire in British cinema during a period of turbulent change. In addition to investigating male-female desire in status quo "realist" films and in various "anti-realist" movements represented by Gainsborough Melodrama and the work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the book also explores the various factors that affected utopian aspirations for a better postwar world and how these desires eventually became restrained by the dominant forces of conservative ideology. Structures of Desire provides new perspectives on previously recognized film movements such as Ealing Comedy and Gainsborough Melodrama while also offering analyses of interesting but neglected films such as Love on the Dole (1941), Perfect Strangers (1945), They Made Me a Fugitive (1947), The Bad Lord Byron (1949), and Madeleine (1950).

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  • Title Structures of Desire: British Cinema, 1939-1955
  • Author Tony Williams
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 225
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Publication date August 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780791446430 / 0791446433
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - Great Britain - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00023991
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 163

About the author

Tony Williams is Professor and Area Head of Film Studies in the Department of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of several books, including Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film; Larry Cohen: Radical Allegories of an American Filmmaker; and most recently, Jack London's The Sea Wolf: A Screenplay by Robert Rossen.

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