Miles, Peter

Cinema, literature & society : elite and mass culture in interwar Britain Peter Miles and Malcolm Smith - London ; New York : Routledge, c1987. - 271 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge Library Editon: Cinema ; 19 .

Includes index.



Introduction Part 1: 'England, Whose England'? 1. The Politics of Depression 2. Suburban Pastoral 3. 'The Heart of England': The Public Schools and the Great War Part 2: Elite and Mass Culture 4. 'The Embattled Minority': Theorists of the Elite 5. Aldous Huxley: The Art of Life and the Threat of Leisure 6. Writing, Reading and Working-Class Culture 7. The Working-Class Writer: Degrees of Challenge 8. The British Film Industry and the Hollywood Invasion 9. John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement Part 3: 'My Country Right or Left' 10. 'Today the Struggle': Literary Politics and the Spanish Civil War 11. The Approach of War 12. 1940. Conclusion

9781138970748

87020033 //r88


English literature--History and criticism--20th century
Literature and society--History--20th century--Great Britain
Motion pictures--History--Great Britain

941.082 MI CI

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