Ripping England! : postwar British satire from Ealing to the Goons / Roger Rawlings.

Author/creator Rawlings, Roger, 1963- author.
Format Book
PublicationAlbany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Descriptionx, 275 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Ealing Studios--History. --20th century.
Comedy films--Great Britain. --History. --20th century.
Comedy films--United States. --History. --20th century.

SeriesSUNY series, horizons of cinema
SUNY series, horizons of cinema. ^A707282
Contents Introduction -- A nation turns inward : the setting of economic and artistic postwar Britain -- "Fog in channel, continent cut off": postwar British filmmakers look inward -- The great bloodless revolution: the Ealing satires (to 1949) -- The Ealing satires' annus mirabilus -- Ealing at a turning point (1949 and after) -- The special relationship: American satires of the 1940s -- Postwar Britain faces its subconscious: Spike Milligan and the goons -- The post-1950s satire boom: satire explodes into late 20th century -- British popular culture -- Epilogue: satire in postwar British and American popular culture.
Abstract "Ripping England! investigates a fertile moment for British satire--the period between 1947 and 1953, which produced the films Passport to Pimlico, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and The Lavender Hill Mob, as well as the seminal radio program The Goon Show. Against the postwar background of fading empire, universal rationing, and the implementation of a welfare state, these satires laid the foundation for a new British cultural identity later fleshed out by the Angry Young Men, the Movement poets, the Social Realists, and those involved in the satire boom of the 1960s, which lives on even to this day. The peculiarity of these satires and the British identity they shaped is better understood when seen in relief against postwar cinematic cultures of Italy, France, and the United States. Roger Rawlings places postwar British film in the context of contemporaneous European national film movements and contrasts it with Hollywood's comedies and satires of the same period. British satires of the late forties and early fifties held up a mirror to a nation that was in the throes of change, moving from a colonial empire to an inward-turning island culture. Ripping England! looks at the all too often neglected miracle of postwar British cinema and popular culture."--Publisher description.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Rawlings, Roger, 1963- Ripping England! Albany : State University of New York Press, 2017 9781438467351
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2016056704
ISBN9781438467337 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN1438467338 hardcover alkaline paper

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