Picturing the Past : The Rise and Fall of the British Costume Film Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Historical Feature Film 1933-39: Political Constraints	8
2	Korda and Balcon: Aristocratic and Bourgeois Symbolism	20
3	Dean, Wilcox and Others: The Politics of the Marketplace	39
4	Lowbrow and Middlebrow Responses in the 1930s	56
5	Highbrow Interventions: The Historical Association and its Friends	64
6	Official Histories in the War Years	77
7	Commercial Film Production and History 1939-45	95
8	A Middle-class View of History: Ealing 1939-49	109
9	History and the Working Class: Gainsborough 1942-50	119
10	Wartime and Postwar Responses to Historical Film	136
11	The Postwar Period: Contexts and Constraints	147
12	Monopoly and History: Rank Films 1945-50	154
13	A Fossilised History: Independent Producers 1945-50	170
	Conclusion	181
	Notes	189
	Select Bibliography	219
	Filmography	223
	Index	233