The Re-Humanisation of Culture: Dickens and the Social Realist Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s

Charles Dickens  (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) in New York, c. 1867–1868 Between 1935 and 1952 seven films were made based on the novels of Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870). 1 They were filmed in the social realist style, a style that was popular after the Great Crash and reflected the hardships […]
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