Film and the Historian

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Film and the Historian is written by Philip Gillett and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1527534502 (ISBN 10) and 9781527534506 (ISBN 13).

Films are not just for audiences: historians of the twentieth century have much to learn from them. A film exposes the attitudes and unconsidered trifles that people took for granted and which were not considered worth recording elsewhere. This volume surveys British cinema from the final days of the Second World War to the early 1970s, exploring societal change across a range of topics including housing, the countryside, psychiatry and the law. This provides a basis for cross-cultural comparisons, with many issues deserving of further research being highlighted. The films discussed range from the well-known Odd Man Out to the forgotten It’s Hard to be Good.