Film and community, Britain and France : from La règle du jeu to Room at the top
Relations between France and Britain have always been uneasy and ambivalent. But in cinema, WWII changed all that for a time. Although the two countries' wartime fortunes differed, post-war both were busy reintegrating returning servicemen and prisoners of war, and accommodating the changed aspirations of women. Margaret Butler examines these subjects and more in her comparative study of the cinemas of Britain and France during and after the war. Using the concept of continuity, she shows how cinema dealt directly with ideas of belonging and alienation, inclusion and exclusion, unity and division. She also draws on contemporary debates and reveals the meaning and appeal of French classics like "Les Enfants du Paradis" and notable British productions like "Waterloo Road."
Print Book, English, 2004
I.B. Tauris ; In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2004