The Holiday and British Film [electronic resource] /
Kerry, M.author.
A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema – the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The British Holiday Film and Its Audience; 2 Theorising the Holiday; 3 The Postcard Comes to Life: Early British Film and the Seaside; 4 Holidays With Pay: The Working Holidays of the 1930s; 5 Reconstructing the Family Holiday: The Holiday Camp in Postwar British Film; 6 From Austerity to Affluence: Holidays Abroad in Postwar British Film; 7 Grim Nostalgia and the Traditional British Holiday of the 1970s; 8 Interrogating National Identity in the Recent British Holiday Film
Conclusion: Summarising Representations of National Identity in the British Holiday FilmSelect Filmography; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema – the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past.
Great Britain—History.
Civilization—History.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Motion pictures—Great Britain.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures and television.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Cultural History.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
British Cinema and TV.
Film History.
Screen Studies.