Picturing the past: the rise and fall of the British costume film

Abstract

Historical feature film, 1933-39 - political restraints Korda and Balcon - aristocratic and bourgeois symbolism Dean, Wilcox and others - the politics of the market-place lowbrow and middlebrow responses in the 1930s highbrow interventions in the war years commercial film production and history, 1939-45 a middle-class view of history - Ealing, 1939-45 history and the working class - Gainsborough, 1942-50 wartime and postwar responses to historical film the postwar period - context and constraints monopoly and history - Rank Film, 1945-50.

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