Books in French are on www.livres-cinema.info
America Through a British Lens
Cinematic Portrayals 1930–2010
(0 vote)Average rating:
| 0 | rating |  = We can do without |
| 0 | rating |  = Good book |
| 0 | rating |  = Excellent book |
| 0 | rating |  = Unique / a reference |
Your rating: -
Book Presentation:
As the British watched their empire crumble and the United States became the dominant world power, many British films warned of the dangers posed by American culture. Americans were frequently portrayed as disconcertingly ambitious, reckless and irreverent. Yet the same films that depicted the U.S. as an agent of chaos also suggested Britons might do well to embrace American-style energy and egalitarianism.
Movies like Love Actually, The Quatermass Xperiment, 28 Weeks Later, Local Hero and Alfred Hitchcock’s Secret Agent have delved into the storied “special relationship” between the U.S. and U.K. These films and many more examined in this first book-length study of British movies about America, reveal much about British attitudes regarding power, gender, class, sexuality and emotion.
About the Author:
James D. Stone is an associate professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
See the publisher website: McFarland & Co
> On a related topic:
Spinsters, Widows and Chars (2021)
The Ageing Woman in British Film
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Transatlantic Television Drama (2019)
Industries, Programs, and Fans
by Michele Hilmes, Matt Hills and Roberta Pearson
Film and the Working Class (2015)
The Feature Film in British and American Society
by Peter Stead
Subject: Sociology
Entertainment Industrialised (2008)
The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890–1940
Subject: Economics
'Film Europe' and 'Film America' (1999)
Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939
Dir. Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby
Subject: History of Cinema
Hollywood's Overseas Campaign (1992)
The North Atlantic Movie Trade, 1920 1950
by Ian Jarvie
Subject: Economics
When Hollywood Loved Britain (1999)
The Hollywood 'British' Film 1939-45
by Mark Glancy
Subject: History of Cinema
America in Literature and Film (2016)
Modernist Perceptions, Postmodernist Representations
Subject: Countries > United States
Back
