Ealing Revisited

by Mark Duguid (Editor), Lee Freeman (Editor), Keith M. Johnston (Editor), Melanie Williams (Editor)

Overview

Ealing Revisited provides a major reappraisal of one of British cinema's best-loved institutions, Ealing Studios.

During its heyday, Ealing produced a string of classic comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955), but there is much more to Ealing than these films, as this volume of new writing on the studio shows.

Addressing both known and less familiar aspects of Ealing's story, its films, actors and technicians, the contributors uncover what has gone unexplored, or unspoken, in previous histories of the studio, and consider the impact that Ealing has had on British cultural life from the 1930s to the present.

Listed in the Independent on Sunday's Cinema books of 2012

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/ios-books-of-the-year-2012-cinema-8373713.html

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781838715458
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
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About the Author

MARK DUGUID is a senior curator at the BFI National Archive. He is the author of the BFI TV Classic on Cracker (2009).
MELANIE WILLIAMS is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is the author of Prisoners of Gender: Women in the Films of J. Lee Thompson (2009), and a co-editor of British Women's Cinema (2009).
KEITH M. JOHNSTON is Senior Lecturer in Film&Television at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of Coming Soon: Film Trailers and the Selling of Hollywood Technology (2009) and Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction (2011).
LEE FREEMAN is a PhD Student in Ealing Studios at the University of Hull, UK.
MARK DUGUID is a senior curator at the BFI National Archive, with overall responsibility for the online representation of archival film and television. He is the author of the BFI TV Classic on Cracker (2009), and co-editor of Ealing Revisited (BFI, 2012). He has written features and reviews for Sight&Sound magazine and is a contributor to the International Encyclopedia of Television.
LEE FREEMAN is a film writer and lecturer at the University of Hull, UK.
Melanie Williams is Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. A specialist in British cinema, her publications in this area include British Women's Cinema (2009), Ealing Revisited (BFI, 2012), David Lean (2014), Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question (2017) and Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema (2019).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction: Revisiting Ealing.- 1 A Lad, a Lass and the Loch Ness Monster: The Pre-History of Ealing Steve Chibnall.- 2 Inside Ealing: The Evidence of the Aileen and Michael Balcon Collection Janet Moat.- 3 Pen Tennyson: Balcon's Golden Boy Martin Carter.- 4 The People's War: The Making of Ealing Andrew Roberts.- 5 From Tinsel to Realism and Back Again: Balcon, Ealing and Documentary Mark Duguid and Catherine McGahan.- 6 'Mild Revolution'?: Ealing Studios and the Political and Social Consensus Lee Freeman.- 7 Dark Shadows Around Ealing Robert Murphy.- 8 Selling Ealing Nathalie Morris.- 9 Georges Auric: Ealing's French Dressing Geoff Brown.- 10 Anthony Mendleson: Ealing's Wardrobe Wizard Catherine A. Surowiec.- 11 Kind Hearts and Campery: The Ealing Family Perverts Andrew Moor.- 12 That Ealing Feeling: 'Ealing Comedies' and Comedies 'made at Ealing' Tim O'Sullivan.- 13 Ambiguity and Achievement: Alec Guinness's Ealing Performances James Walters.- 14 Children of Ealing Colin Sell.- 15 Ealing's Australian Adventure Stephen Morgan.- 16 'Who'll pay for reality?': Ealing, Dreams and Fantasy Josephine Botting.- 17 A Feminine Touch? Ealing's Women Melanie Williams.- 18 'A riot of all the colours in the rainbow': Ealing Studios in Colour Keith M. Johnston.- 19 Against the Grain: Kenneth Tynan at Ealing Charles Barr.- 20 The Legacy of Ealing Dylan Cave.- Notes.- Michael Balcon's Ealing Studios: A Filmography.- Index.