Ealing comedy

English Etymology From Ealing Studios, the studio which released most such films, named after the London town of Ealing. Noun ~ en uncountable A genre of English comedy film, typically populist and satirical about life in post-WWII British society. en 2004-06-03 James Chapman Cinemas of the World: Film and Society from 1895 to the Present Reaktion Books 9781861895745 281 Ealing comedy is suddenly being regarded as the intellectual's treat. en 2006-03-23 Gill Plain John Mills and British Cinema: Masculinity, Identity and Nation Edinburgh University Press 9780748626618 210 What Michael Balcon described as the 'mild anarchy' (1969: 159) permeating Ealing comedy was, over the course of the decade, usurped by the moderate anarchy of the St Trinians and Carry On films. en 2014-07-14 Marcia Landy British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930-1960 Princeton University Press 9781400862184 377 The use of voice-over, characteristic of Ealing comedy, is also ironic. en 2023-07-27 David Stubbs Different Times: A History of British Comedy Faber & Faber 9780571353484 1886 Ealing comedy was a reaction against the sort of earnest fare the Ealing Studios themselves had produced in wartime. en countable A film in this genre. en 1989-08-01 Julian Graffy Geoffrey Hosking Culture and the Media in the USSR Today Springer 9781349201068 67 This new film follows the pattern of an Ealing comedy, with escalating chaos and fantasy as the entire fabric of life collapses for the inhabitants of a Leningrad apartment block en 2006 Joel Coen Ethan Coen The Coen Brothers: Interviews Univ. Press of Mississippi 9781578068890 200 OK, it's [The Ladykillers (1955 film) The Ladykillers] an Ealing comedy so there's something very British and very genteel about it , which isn't particularly our thing. en 2014-10-16 Gilbert Adair Surfing the Zeitgeist Faber & Faber 9780571319824 Its finest moments are nevertheless as always the vignettes of tenderly observed British ordinariness: Wallace remarking 'Cracking piece of toast, Gromit' at the breakfast table, just like Stanley Holloway in an Ealing comedy en Film genres