John Mills and British Cinema: Masculinity, Identity and Nation

by Gill Plain

Book Overview

Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second World War. Regarded as an English 'everyman', his performances crossed the class divide and, in his easy transition from below decks to above, he came to represent a newly democratic masculine ideal. But what was this exemplary masculinity and what became of it in the aftermath...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748621083
• ISBN13: 9780748621088
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher