A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema - the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past.

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MATTHEW KERRY is Lecturer in Film and Media at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

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Acknowledgements Introduction The British Holiday Film and its Audience Theorising the Holiday The Postcard Comes To Life: Early British Film and the Seaside Holidays With Pay: The Working Holidays of the 1930s Re-constructing the Family Holiday: The Holiday Camp in Postwar British Film From Austerity to Affluence: Holidays Abroad in Postwar British Film Grim Nostalgia and the Traditional British Holiday of the 1970s Interrogating National Identity in the Recent British Holiday Film Conclusion Summarising Representations of National Identity in the British Holiday Film Select Filmography Bibliography Index