Re-upping for the Monday crowd: The first instalment of a two-part piece on the overarching plot themes of Ealing films and their ideological underpinnings, focusing here on the studio's wartime output and the war films it made after 1945. All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated.

Ealing Plots (Part I)

The Second World War was the formative period for Ealing Studios under Michael Balcon, and the nascent mythologisation of the conflict became embedded in its mode of storytelling.

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