Bøger af Neil Rattigan

A Critical Study of Baz Luhrmann's First 'Red Curtain' Film.

An anthology of articles that range over an eclectic collection of topics in the areas of film and television. Considered are a variety of aspects of cinema in different places and at different times: Australian cinema and culture; American Cold War musicals; Hollywood father-and-son films in the 1980s; British Second World War films and class; the earliest American films and their use of location. In addition, there are essays on television: Situation Comedy narrative; and Soap Opera spectacle.

This study analyzes British wartime cinema, offering extended examination of a wide selection of feature films and documentaries made in Britain between 1939 and 1946, and using textual analyses of these films to explore the historical, social, and cultural context of social class in Britain within the overall situation of 'total war' and its concomitant propaganda imperative of 'The People's War.' Includes 20 photos.