Film and community, Britain and France from La règle du jeu to Room at the top - Butler, Margaret (I.B. Tauris, 2004)
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Essex
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-242) and index
Britain and France and the concept of "community" -- Film industries at war : projecting "community" -- Countryside and city, Paysage et patrie at war -- Countryside, city, and region in post-war film -- Cinema of the return : acceptance and alienation -- Women in Britain : "returned" or renewed? -- "Liberation" and Les femmes françaises
Relations between France and Britain have always been uneasy and ambivalent. But in cinema the 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 accomodating 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 div