Roger Rawlings teaches film studies at Palm Beach State College and is Director of Programming at YipTV.com. He cowrote and directed the feature film Neurotica (2004), was executive producer and cowrote the story for Losers Take All (2013), and has produced award-winning films in Ireland and New York.

"The book is full of wonderful anecdotes and facts that will delight even the most knowledgeable culture buff, and the thorough notes are worth reading for the extra information they include. Rawlings has amassed a lot of material in what is obviously a labour of love." — Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

• List of ImagesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Nation Turns Inward: The Setting of Economic and Artistic Postwar Britain2. "Fog in Channel, Continent Cut Off": Postwar British Filmmakers Look Inward3. The Great Bloodless Revolution: Postwar British Film and the Ealing Satires (to 1949)4. The Ealing Satires’ Annus Mirabilus (1949)5. Ealing at a Turning Point (1949 and After)6. The Special Relationship: American Satires of the 1940s7. Postwar Britain Faces Its Subconscious: Spike Milligan and the Goons’ Postmodern Schizophrenia8. The Post-1950s Satire Boom: Satire Explodes into Late Twentieth-Century British and American Popular CultureEpilogueNotesWorks CitedIndex

Roger Rawlings teaches film studies at Palm Beach State College and is Director of Programming at YipTV.com. He cowrote and directed the feature film Neurotica (2004), was executive producer and cowrote the story for Losers Take All (2013), and has produced award-winning films in Ireland and New York.

"The book is full of wonderful anecdotes and facts that will delight even the most knowledgeable culture buff, and the thorough notes are worth reading for the extra information they include. Rawlings has amassed a lot of material in what is obviously a labour of love." — Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

• List of ImagesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Nation Turns Inward: The Setting of Economic and Artistic Postwar Britain2. "Fog in Channel, Continent Cut Off": Postwar British Filmmakers Look Inward3. The Great Bloodless Revolution: Postwar British Film and the Ealing Satires (to 1949)4. The Ealing Satires’ Annus Mirabilus (1949)5. Ealing at a Turning Point (1949 and After)6. The Special Relationship: American Satires of the 1940s7. Postwar Britain Faces Its Subconscious: Spike Milligan and the Goons’ Postmodern Schizophrenia8. The Post-1950s Satire Boom: Satire Explodes into Late Twentieth-Century British and American Popular CultureEpilogueNotesWorks CitedIndex

Roger Rawlings teaches film studies at Palm Beach State College and is Director of Programming at YipTV.com. He cowrote and directed the feature film Neurotica (2004), was executive producer and cowrote the story for Losers Take All (2013), and has produced award-winning films in Ireland and New York.

"The book is full of wonderful anecdotes and facts that will delight even the most knowledgeable culture buff, and the thorough notes are worth reading for the extra information they include. Rawlings has amassed a lot of material in what is obviously a labour of love." — Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

• List of ImagesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Nation Turns Inward: The Setting of Economic and Artistic Postwar Britain2. "Fog in Channel, Continent Cut Off": Postwar British Filmmakers Look Inward3. The Great Bloodless Revolution: Postwar British Film and the Ealing Satires (to 1949)4. The Ealing Satires’ Annus Mirabilus (1949)5. Ealing at a Turning Point (1949 and After)6. The Special Relationship: American Satires of the 1940s7. Postwar Britain Faces Its Subconscious: Spike Milligan and the Goons’ Postmodern Schizophrenia8. The Post-1950s Satire Boom: Satire Explodes into Late Twentieth-Century British and American Popular CultureEpilogueNotesWorks CitedIndex