A mirror for England :

Durgnat, Raymond.

A mirror for England : British movies from austerity to affluence / Raymond Durgnat. - 2nd ed. / with a foreword by Kevin Gough-Yates. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - xxi, 394 p. : ill., ports. ; 19 cm. - BFI silver . - BFI silver. .

Previous ed.: London: Faber, 1970. Published in association with the British Film Institute.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Raymond Durgnat's classic study of how the middle-class view of life as expressed in British cinema transformed our understanding of British films and also opened some disturbing new insights into a national character by whose enigmas and contradictions we have so long been fascinated.

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Motion pictures--History.--Great Britain
Performing Arts.