Blackout : : Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema / / Antonia Caroline Lant.
The most universal civilian privation in World War II Britain, the blackout possessed many symbolic meanings. Among its complicated implications for filmmakers was a stigmatization of film spectacle--including the display of "Hollywood women," whose extravagant appearance connoted at best...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION: Cinema in Extremis
- CHAPTER 1. Projecting National Identity
- CHAPTER 2. The Mobile Woman: Femininity in Wartime Cinema
- CHAPTER 3. The Blackout
- CHAPTER 4. Processing History: The Timing of a Brief Encounter
- CONCLUSION. From Mufti to Civvies: A Canterbury Tale
- APPENDIX I. Bogart or Bacon: The British Film Industry during World War II
- APPENDIX II. British Box Office Information, 1940-1950
- SELECT FILMOGRAPHY
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX