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Moving Pictures? Cinema and Society in Britain - Culture in Britain since 1945. By Arthur Marwick. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 1991. Pp. xiv + 206. $19.95. - British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930–1960. By Marcia Landy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii + 553. $65.00. - Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain, 1939–1949. By Robert Murphy. New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xiii + 278. $16.95. - Sixties British Cinema. By Robert Murphy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. Pp. ix + 354. $59.95. - Popular Television in Britain: Studies in Cultural History. Edited by John Corner. London: British Film Institute, 1991. Pp. vii + 211. $49.95. - Blackout: Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema. By Antonia Lant. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xv + 262. $49.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Kelly Boyd
Kelly Boyd*
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Goldsmiths' College, University of London
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 130 - 135
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References

1 See, e.g., Richards, Jeffrey and Sheridan, Dorothy, eds., Mass Observation at the Movies (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987)Google Scholar; Cross, Gary, Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s (London: Routledge, 1990)Google Scholar; or Davies, Andrew, Leisure, Gender and Poverty: Working-Class Culture in Salford and Manchester, 1900–1939 (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1992)Google Scholar.

2 Richards, Jeffrey, Visions of Yesterday (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973)Google Scholar, examines imperial films in the context of Britain, America, and National Socialism.

3 Emsley, Clive, The English Police: A Political and Social History (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991), pp. 202–3Google Scholar.

4 Ibid., p. 160.

5 Light, Alison, Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars (London: Routledge, 1991)Google Scholar.

6 Roper, Michael and Tosh, John, eds. Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain since 1800 (London: Routledge, 1991)Google Scholar.