{"product_id":"9781438467351","title":"Ripping England!: Postwar British Satire from Ealing to the Goons","description":"\u003ci\u003eExamines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRipping England!\u003c\/i\u003e investigates a fertile moment for British satire—the period between 1947 and 1953, which produced the films \u003ci\u003ePassport to Pimlico\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKind Hearts and Coronets\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Lavender Hill Mob\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the seminal radio program \u003ci\u003eThe Goon Show\u003c\/i\u003e. Against the postwar background of fading empire, universal rationing, and the implementation of a welfare state, these satires laid the foundation for a new British cultural identity later fleshed out by the Angry Young Men, the Movement poets, the Social Realists, and those involved in the satire boom of the 1960s, which lives on even to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe peculiarity of these satires and the British identity they shaped is better understood when seen in relief against postwar cinematic cultures of Italy, France, and the United States. Roger Rawlings places postwar British film in the context of contemporaneous European national film movements and contrasts it with Hollywood’s comedies and satires of the same period. British satires of the late forties and early fifties held up a mirror to a nation that was in the throes of change, moving from a colonial empire to an inward-turning island culture. \u003ci\u003eRipping England!\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the all too often neglected miracle of postwar British cinema and popular culture.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154593595632,"sku":"9781438467351","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781438467351_p0.jpg?v=1763755840","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781438467351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}