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Acknowledgements Preface 1. The Experience of Picturegoing: Cinema as aSocial Space 2. Modernity, the Modern and Fifties Britain 3. Rural Rebels andthe Landscape of Opposition 4. Resisting Modernity: Comedies of Bureaucracyand Expertise 5. The Post-War Settlement and Women's Choices: Melodrama andRealism in Ealing Drama 6. European Relations: Sex, Politics and the EuropeanWoman 7. The Commonwealth Film and the Liberal Dilemma 8. Reconstituting theFamily: 'It's for Children that I'm Worried' 9. Femininity in the Fifties:The New Woman and the Problem of the Female Star 10. The Fifties War Film:Creating Space for the Triumph of Masculinity