Narrating the Thirties: A Decade in the Making, 1930 to the Present

Baxendale, John/ Pawling, Christopher

Palgrave Macmillan（1995/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 商品コード 9780333622995
• DDC分類 306.09043

Full Description

In a series of case-studies, ranging widely from documentary film and the writings of J.B. Priestley to postwar historiography and Remains of the Day, this book explores the ever-changing and hotly contested narratives of Britain in the 1930s. The authors argue that images of 'the Thirties' have been a continual presence in the construction of the wartime and postwar world, and in particular in the emergent discourse of social democracy and its subsequent decline.

Contents

Acknowledgements - Introduction: A Decade Under Construction - Representing the People: the Documentary Film Movement and Mass Observation in the Thirties - In Search of the People: the Journeys of J.B. Priestley - Narratives of Empire: Journeys from the 'Centre' and 'Periphery' - 'Kept Under by a Generation of Ghosts': the War, the People and the Thirties - From the Devil's Decade to the Golden Age: the Postwar Politics of the Thirties - Pennies From Heaven: Revisiting the Thirties as Popular Culture - 'A Feeling for Tradition and Discipline': Conservatism and the Thirties in Remains of the Day - Notes - Bibliography