Abstract This article re-visits contemporary surveys of the cinema in the 1930s and 1940s to explore the implications that the cinema’s role as an “emotional frontier” between everyday life and the imagination had on the emotional lives of boys and young men. It makes a novel contribution to the history of youth and emotions, arguing that for boys and young men who were disconnected from social life, the cinema was an “emotional refuge,” a space of heightened emotional encounter, in which conventional assumptions about masculinity could be fractured and “feminine” sensibilities otherwise difficult to express publicly could receive cathartic release.

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为 Flicka 哭泣：1930 年代和 1940 年代英国电影院的男孩、年轻人和情感

摘要 本文重新审视了对 1930 和 1940 年代电影的当代调查，以探讨电影作为介于日常生活和想象之间的“情感前沿”对男孩和年轻男性情感生活的影响。它对青年和情感的历史做出了新的贡献，认为对于与社会生活脱节的男孩和年轻人来说，电影是一个“情感避难所”，一个高度情感相遇的空间，其中关于男子气概的传统假设可以精神分裂，否则难以公开表达的“女性”情感可能会得到宣泄。