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