Introduction
in The never-ending Brief Encounter
Chapter DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526124418.00007
Online Publication Date:
28 Aug 2019
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This chapter introduces the idea of Brief Encounter’s remarkable after-life. It outstrips other notable films in the varied ways in which it has persisted in the collective memory. Some of these ways will prove more trivial than others but all will contribute the book’s central contention.

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9781526124418
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
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Subjects:
Film, Media and Music
Keywords:
British cinema; 1940s; restraint; passion; middle class; comedy; railway stations; descendants; quotations; echoes
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(132 total)
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
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