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.
"Thorough . . . throws new light on the way history was treated by our national cinema between 1933 and 1950."--"Observer
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