دانلود کتاب Ripping England!: Postwar British Satire from Ealing to the Goons

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Contents
List of Images
Acknowledgments
Introduction
America’s Role
The British Postwar Cultural Milieu
1 A Nation Turns Inward: The Setting of Economic and
Artistic Postwar Britain
The Paradox of the New Jerusalem
Austerity Britain
The Art Scene
The Silent Generation
2 “Fog in Channel, Continent Cut Off”: Postwar British
Filmmakers Look Inward
Ealing
Michael Balcon—A Circle Needs a Center
Postwar English Satire Comes to West London
The English Music Hall Tradition
Boomer Nostalgia
3 The Great Bloodless Revolution: Postwar British Film
and the Ealing Satires (to 1949)
British Film Industry at the End of the War
First, the Old Standards
Ealing Arrives: Ealing’s 1945–55 Drama
versus Comedy/Satire Output
The Ealing Satires
4 The Ealing Satires’ Annus Mirabilus (1949)
5 Ealing at a Turning Point (1949 and After)
Spring, 1951—The Festival of Britain
The End of Ealing
6 The Special Relationship: American Satires of the 1940s
Postwar Atmosphere and
American Satires of the 1940s
Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942)
W.C. Fields’s Revolt from the Village
The 1940s Satires of Preston Sturges
The European Émigrés and Late 1940s Satire
in the United States
Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard (1949),
and Ace in the Hole (1950)
Bob Hope, The Paleface (1949)
The Melodramatic Satires of Douglas Sirk
7 Postwar Britain Faces Its Subconscious: Spike Milligan
and the Goons’ Postmodern Schizophrenia
The Goon Show’s Weekly Topicality
Getting to the Goons:
Milligan, Secombe, Sellers, Bentine
The Goon Show and
Fighting Auntie’s Staid Dominance
A Militant Satirist’s Personal Psychology
and Anti-Authoritarianism
Milligan Challenges a Changing Culture
with a Surreal, Absurd Satire
Rhetorical Devices in Milligan’s Satire:
Sound, Leacock, and Jazz
Structure and Pace of The Goon Show
The Goons’ Characters and
Their Types Become Postwar Staples
The Definition of Insanity: The Goon Show as
Social/Cultural Criticism and the New Popular Culture
8 The Post-1950s Satire Boom: Satire Explodes into Late
Twentieth-Century British and American Popular Culture
Film: The Boulting Brothers and the End of the ’50s
Carry On, John Profumo, and the
Dawn of the ’60s Revolution
Later Satires of the 1970s and 1980s
Theater and Television
Print
Tunesmiths and Wordsmiths
And Finally, Stand Up! People
Epilogue
Is Satire Conservative?
Better Angels?
Ripping England
Notes
Works Cited
Books
Articles
Websites
Index