Laughing in the face of adversity? Ealing films' take on life.
Ealing films have a reputation for cosiness, whimsicality, and an ever so gentle subversiveness. We will revisit them in the light of post-war European New Waves, such as the masterpieces of Italian neo-realism. Set amongst the ruins, Ealing films documented lives in bombed cities. Viewed as comedies of rubble, they take on a more serious set of meanings than their whimsical reputation suggests.
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Dr Benedict Morrison
Benedict Morrison is a lecturer in Literature and Film at the University of Exeter. He has recently published a book entitled Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema with Oxford University Press and is now producing works on post-war British comedy films, the response by the arts and humanities to Covid-19, and cultural narratives of extinction. He spent seven years studying at the University of Oxford, but finally traded the dreaming spires for the cultural bustle of London, where he lives with his partner. He loves nothing more than settling down in the darkness of a cinema to enjoy a great film.
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