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Heroes and Happy Endings: Class, Gender, and Nation in Popular Film and Fiction in Interwar Britain

Heroes and Happy Endings: Class, Gender, and Nation in Popular Film and Fiction in Interwar Britain

Grandy, Christine

Paperback

Series: Studies in Popular Culture

Film StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1526106825
ISBN13: 9781526106827
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Feb 3 2017
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This is a highly anticipated examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s. Departing from a prevailing emphasis on popular culture as escapist, Christine Grandy offers a fresh perspective by noting the enduring importance of class and gender divisions in the narratives read and watched by the working and middle classes between the wars. This compelling study ties contemporary concerns about ex-soldiers, profiteers, and working and voting women to the heroes, villains and love-interests that dominated a range of films and novels. Heroes and happy endings further considers the state's role in shaping the content of popular narratives through censorship.

An important and highly readable work for scholars and students interested in cultural and social history, as well as media and film studies, this book is sure to shift our understanding of the role of mass culture in the 1920s and 1930s.

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