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

by Malcolm Smith, Peter Miles, Malcolm Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415726522
• ISBN13: 9780415726528
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"