Part of a series which aims to help delineate various critical approaches to specific literary texts, this book is an introduction to some of the main themes of Emily Bronte's criticism. It is also a distinctive reading of the roles of property and passion in "Wuthering Heights", exploring the presentation of houses and property roles, the anxieties of patriarchy and tensions between literacy and superstition. Peter Miles was the co-author of "Woman in White", "Framley Parsonage" and "Cinema, Literature and Society - Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain".

Wuthering Heights (Critics Debate)

Literature & Fiction

Miles, Peter

History & Criticism

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

Wuthering Heights (The Critics Debate)

During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. And this cultural divide appeared to be sharp evidence of a deeper struggle for control of the nation’s consciousness, not only between dominant and oppositional elements within Britain, but between British and American vales as well.  On the one hand, films like Sing As We Go, Proud Valley, and The Stars Look Down consolidated the assumptions about the existence of a national rather than separate class identities. On the other hand, working-class literature such as Love on the Dole articulated working-class experience in a manner intended to bridge the gap between the ‘Two Englands’.  This book, originally published in 1987, examines how two of the most significant cultural forms in Britain contributed indirectly to the stability of Britain in the interwar crisis, helping to construct a new class alliance. A major element in the investigation is an analysis of the mechanics of the development of a national cultural identity, alongside separate working-class culture, the development of the lower-middle class and the implications of the intrusion of Hollywood culture. The treatment throughout is thematic rather than text-oriented – works of Graham Greene, George Orwell, Bert Coombes, Evelyn Waugh, the British Documentary Film Movement and Michael Balcon are included in the wide range of material covered.

Cinema, Literature & Society: Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain

Smith, Malcolm

Reference

Routledge

Cinema, Literature and Society: Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain (Croom Helm Series of Film, Television and the Media)

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During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. And this cultural divide appeared to be sharp evidence of a deeper struggle for control of the nation’s consciousness, not only between dominant and oppositional elements within Britain, but between British and American vales as well. On the one hand, films like Sing As We Go, Proud Valley, and The Stars Look Down consolidated the assumptions about the existence of a national rather than separate class identities. On the other hand, working-class literature such as Love on the Dole articulated working-class experience in a manner intended to bridge the gap between the ‘Two Englands’. This book, originally published in 1987, examines how two of the most significant cultural forms in Britain contributed indirectly to the stability of Britain in the interwar crisis, helping to construct a new class alliance. A major element in the investigation is an analysis of the mechanics of the development of a national cultural identity, alongside separate working-class culture, the development of the lower-middle class and the implications of the intrusion of Hollywood culture. The treatment throughout is thematic rather than text-oriented – works of Graham Greene, George Orwell, Bert Coombes, Evelyn Waugh, the British Documentary Film Movement and Michael Balcon are included in the wide range of material covered.

Cinema, Literature & Society: Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)

This provocative, ironic, and whimsical new book by the cutting-edge marketing concern and creators of Fuel magazine challenges many of our preconceptions about the purpose and scope of graphic media in a world that is increasingly dominated by the visual. Through full-color photography, film stills, innovative design, and thought-provoking text, Fuel 3000 explores the consequences of living and working in a world where the boundaries separating artistic and commercial activities, as well as personal and public spheres, have collapsed or in the process of being dismantled by global forces.What happens when a work of art becomes a commodity? When consumers become producers, and vice versa? How does the value of an object change between the time it is created and the moment it is bought? Today these questions are becoming increasingly relevant -- but strangely enough, they are the very issues that occupied the greatest minds at the end of the nineteenth century. As enigmatic as it is profound, as arrestingly beautiful as it is intellectually challenging, Fuel 3000 reveals through word and image the strangely cyclical phenomena of production and consumption in a rapidly changing civilization.

Fuel Three Thousand

Arts & Photography

Murray, Damon

Sorrell, Stephen

Peckham, Shannan

Graphic Design

Te Neues Pub Group

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