Ealing Revisited

Ealing Revisited offers a new look at the films and history of Ealing Studios, best known as the producer of famous film comedies such as The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and The Ladykillers (1955). Yet there is more to Ealing Studios than those famous comedies, and this book draws together some of the leading experts on Ealing and British cinema to explore the history of Britain's best loved film studio. Tying in with the BFI's major retrospective of Ealing Studios in November/December 2012, the book presents a closer look at the known and unknown elements of Ealing, its films and their sometimes unsung creators. This new approach explores what has gone unexplored, or unspoken, in popular and academic histories of the studio, and considers the impact that Ealing has had on British cinema and society from the 1930s to the present day.

MARK DUGUID is a senior curator at the BFI National Archive. He is the author of the BFI TV Classic on Cracker (2009).
MELANIE WILLIAMS is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is the author of Prisoners of Gender: Women in the Films of J. Lee Thompson (2009), and a co-editor of British Women's Cinema (2009).
KEITH M. JOHNSTON is Senior Lecturer in Film & Television at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of Coming Soon: Film Trailers and the Selling of Hollywood Technology (2009) and Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction (2011).
LEE FREEMAN is a PhD Student in Ealing Studios at the University of Hull, UK.

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Revisiting Ealing

1 A Lad, a Lass and the Loch Ness Monster: The Pre-History
of Ealing
Steve Chibnall

2 Inside Ealing: The Evidence of the Aileen and Michael Balcon Collection
Janet Moat

3 Pen Tennyson: Balcon's Golden Boy
Martin Carter

4 The People's War: The Making of Ealing
Andrew Roberts

5 From Tinsel to Realism and Back Again: Balcon, Ealing and Documentary
Mark Duguid and Catherine McGahan

6 'Mild Revolution'?: Ealing Studios and the Political and Social Consensus
Lee Freeman

7 Dark Shadows Around Ealing
Robert Murphy

8 Selling Ealing
Nathalie Morris

9 Georges Auric: Ealing's French Dressing
Geoff Brown

10 Anthony Mendleson: Ealing's Wardrobe Wizard
Catherine A. Surowiec

11 Kind Hearts and Campery: The Ealing Family Perverts
Andrew Moor

12 That Ealing Feeling: 'Ealing Comedies' and Comedies
'made at Ealing'
Tim O'Sullivan

13 Ambiguity and Achievement: Alec Guinness's Ealing
Performances
James Walters

14 Children of Ealing
Colin Sell

15 Ealing's Australian Adventure
Stephen Morgan

16 'Who'll pay for reality?': Ealing, Dreams and Fantasy
Josephine Botting

17 A Feminine Touch? Ealing's Women
Melanie Williams

18 'A riot of all the colours in the rainbow': Ealing Studios
in Colour
Keith M. Johnston

19 Against the Grain: Kenneth Tynan at Ealing
Charles Barr

20 The Legacy of Ealing
Dylan Cave

Notes
Michael Balcon's Ealing Studios: A Filmography
Index