Realism and Tinsel

• 1 Britain Alone 2 War Culture 3 Realism and Tinsel 4 The Rank Empire 5 Great Expectations 6 Passionate Friends 7 Exotic Dreams 8 The Spiv Cycle 9 Morbid Burrowing 10 Nothing to Laugh at at All 11 Challenge to Hollywood

`Pursuing his theory in lively style and with examination of a large number of productions, the author has written an unfailingly interesting study, fully documented and concluding with a useful chronology of cinema society through the period.' - Film Review`Robert Murphy ... has broken new ground, not only in covering the British cinema in the forties as a whole, but in looking beyond the critical orthodoxy ...' - Eric Braun, The Stage and Television Today`...very well documented, gracefully written, and convincingly argued.' - Choice`...[a] welcome addition to the impressive `Cinema and Society' series...' - History TodaySight and Sound praised: `... the readiness, indeed eagerness, of Murphy's study to browse along not just the main thoroughfare of 1940s British Cinema ... but also an assortment of back streets: By-Ways for variety and radio stars.'`Pursuing his theory in lively style and with examination of a large number of productions, the author has written an unfailingly interesting study, fully documented and concluding with a useful chronology of cinema society through the period.' - Film Review`... elegant and clearly written ...' - Michael Paris, History Today`Robert Murphy ... has broken new ground, not only in covering the British cinema in the forties as a whole, but in looking beyond the critical orthodoxy ...' - Eric Braun, The Stage and Television Today`... solidly researched ... a detailed and straightforward account of the hundreds of British films turned out during the period ...' - J.K.L. Walker, Times Literary Supplement