John Mills and British cinema : masculinity, identity and nation /
Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second World War. Regarded as an English 'everyman', his performances crossed the class divide and, in his easy transiti...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
©[2006]
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r2712 |
Sommario:
- A British Cagney? : cinema and self-definition in the 1930s
- Mills at war, 1940-45 : the nation incarnate?
- A cautionary note : great expeditions and the postwar world
- Dead men, angry men and drunks : post-traumatic stress and the 1950s
- The spectre of impotence : fathers, lovers and defeated authority
- Playing fool : comedy and the end of everyman.