Showing at the Eric Morecambe Centre…
Benedict Morrison:Cinema from the Rubble – The post war politics of Ealing Studios
Ealing Studios is often hailed as the most quintessentially English film studio. Run by Sir Michael Balcon, its annus mirabilis was 1949, with Passport to Pimlico, Whisky Galore!, and Kind Hearts and Coronets. With a reputation for cosiness, whimsicality, and an ever-so gentle subversiveness, this talk revisits these films and rereads them in the light of post-war new waves emerging across Europe.
Benedict Morrison lectures at Exeter University. His latest book is Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema (OUP). Current projects on post-war British comedy films, arts and humanities’ response to Covid-19, and cultural narratives of extinction. He loves nothing more than settling down in the darkness of a cinema to enjoy a great film.
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