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OverviewA 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: M. KerryPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.524kg ISBN: 9780230301047ISBN 10: 0230301045 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 27 October 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The British Holiday Film and its Audience Theorising the Holiday The Postcard Comes To Life: Early British Film and the Seaside Holidays With Pay: The Working Holidays of the 1930s Re-constructing the Family Holiday: The Holiday Camp in Postwar British Film From Austerity to Affluence: Holidays Abroad in Postwar British Film Grim Nostalgia and the Traditional British Holiday of the 1970s Interrogating National Identity in the Recent British Holiday Film Conclusion – Summarising Representations of National Identity in the British Holiday Film Select Filmography Bibliography IndexReviews'This thorough, well-argued and well-documented study is carefully structured and lucidly written. Matthew Kerry not only analyses in detail all the major films relating to the holiday but also invaluably establishes their social, cultural and cinematic contexts decade by decade. He theorizes the holiday by reference to the established authorities (Bourdieu, Adorno, Debord, Urry, Bakhtin), and analyses their various approaches to the 'tourist gaze', spectacle, marginality and the carnivalesque. The whole adds up to a unique and valuable addition to the existing literature both of the cinema and the holiday.' - Jeffrey Richards, Lancaster University, UK Author InformationMATTHEW KERRY is Lecturer in Film and Media at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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