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The Carry On Films

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Steven Gerrard

    1. School of Film and Digital Media, University of Wales Trinity St David, Swansea, United Kingdom

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  • Features in-depth discussion of the Carry On films
  • Explores the films’ characters as representations of traditional and contextual masculinity and female sexuality
  • Situates the films in both tradition and contextual worlds
  • Features in-depth analysis of Carry On Sergeant, Carry On Cabby, Carry On At Your Convenience, Carry On Spying, Carry On Screaming!, Carry On Cowboy, and Carry On Up The Khyber

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Steven Gerrard
    Pages 1-11

  3. Everything Has a Beginning

    • Steven Gerrard
    Pages 13-28

  4. The Carry On Saga

    • Steven Gerrard
    Pages 29-53

  5. ‘Carry On, Sergeant!’

    • Steven Gerrard
    Pages 55-72

  6. Heroes, Rogues and Fools: The Carry On Men

    • Steven Gerrard
    Pages 73-105

  7. Hottentots and Harridans: The Carry On Women

    • Steven Gerrard
    Pages 107-127

  8. Room at the Bottom

    • Steven Gerrard
    Pages 129-159

  9. Spies and Screamers!

    • Steven Gerrard
    Pages 161-192

  10. Cowboys and Khasis

    • Steven Gerrard
    Pages 193-217

  11. Conclusion: Carry On Concluding

    • Steven Gerrard
    Pages 219-226

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 227-252
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Saucy, rude and vulgar—the 31 Carry On films remain an important part of the history of British cinematic and low brow comedy. In this book, Gerrard discusses the Carry On roots in the music halls of the Victorians and the saucy seaside postcards of Donald McGill. Made in post-war Britain, these films reflect a remarkable period of social change as the British Empire faded and a nation learned to laugh at itself. Nothing was sacred to the Carry On team. James Bond and Cleopatra were mercilessly lampooned, Miss World competitions and toilet factories came in for a cinematic pasting, while Sid James’ laugh, Barbara Windsor’s wiggle, Kenneth Williams’ flared nostrils and Charles Hawtrey’s “Oh, hello!” became synonymous with laughter, merriment and fun. Gerrard’s work examines the Carry On films as part of a wider canvas linking both their heritage and tradition to the contextual world they mirrored. The Carry On Films is an essential read for Carry On fans the country through.
<Ding dong! Carry On!


Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Film and Digital Media, University of Wales Trinity St David, Swansea, United Kingdom

    Steven Gerrard

About the author

Dr Steven Gerrard is Lecturer of Film, Media and Visual Culture at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He has written for The Dark Side Magazine, Culture Unbound: The Journal of Current Cultural Research, We Belong Dead Publications, and his work on the Carry On films has appeared as chapters in edited collections. He loves science fiction and horror cinema, and anything to do with British Low Culture.

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