Airy Persiflage: Occasional thoughts on film, television and culture - Paperback

by Neil Rattigan (Author)

An anthology of articles that range over an eclectic collection of topics in the areas of film and television. Considered are a variety of aspects of cinema in different places and at different times: Australian cinema and culture; American Cold War musicals; Hollywood father-and-son films in the 1980s; British Second World War films and class; the earliest American films and their use of location. In addition, there are essays on television: Situation Comedy narrative; and Soap Opera spectacle.

Author Biography

Neil Rattigan studied film and television in Australia, the UK and the USA. He taught screen studies in Western Australia, England and New South Wales for more than thirty years. He is the author of Images of Australia (1991), This Is England (2001) and a critical study of Strictly Ballroom (2005).