Moved to tears: weeping in the cinema in postwar Britain.
The article discusses different attitudes of men and women to crying in the cinema in postwar Great Britain. It also details an extensive survey of British audience responses conducted by Mass-Observation which reveals a wealth of challenging material, and stimulates debate about gender, class and a...
| Publicado en: | Screen Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 152 - 174 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Summer96
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| Sumario: | The article discusses different attitudes of men and women to crying in the cinema in postwar Great Britain. It also details an extensive survey of British audience responses conducted by Mass-Observation which reveals a wealth of challenging material, and stimulates debate about gender, class and age difference in matters of aesthetic taste and permits tentative conclusions to be drawn about the social and psychological function of film in the postwar period. For many men, their fear of the emotional blandishments of mass cinema resulted to a radical split between the analytical and the emotional sides of their personalities. |
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