British Film Culture in the 1970s : : The Boundaries of Pleasure / / Sue Harper, Justin Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Harper, Sue,; Smith, Justin,
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Dave,; Barber, Sian,; Bradley, Peri,; Ede, Laurie N.,; Forster, Laurel,; Harper, Sue,; Porter, Vincent,; Shaw, Sally,; Smith, Justin,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 8 B/W tables 20 B/W halftones 20 film stills

This volume draws a map of British film culture in the 1970s and provides a wide-ranging history of the period. It examines the cross-cultural relationship between British cinema and other media, including popular music and television. The analysis covers mainstream and experimental film cultures, identifying their production contexts and the economic, legislative and censorship constraints on British cinema throughout the decade.The essays in Part I contextualise the study and illustrate the diversity of 1970s moving image culture. In Part II, Sue Harper and Justin Smith examine how gender relations and social space were addressed in film. They show how a shared visual manner and performance style characterises this fragmented cinema, and how irony and anxiety suffuse the whole film culture. This volume charts the shifting boundaries of permission in 1970s film culture and changes in audience taste.This book is the culmination of an AHRC-funded project at the University of Portsmouth, For more information about 1970s British Cinema, Film and Video: Mainstream and Counter-Culture (2006-2009) please visit the project website at www.1970sproject.co.uk."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I -- CHAPTER 1 Government Aid and Film Legislation: ‘An elastoplast to stop a haemorrhage’ -- CHAPTER 2 British Film Censorship and the BBFC in the 1970s -- CHAPTER 3 Moving Images and the Visual Arts in 1970s Britain -- CHAPTER 4 British Film Design in the 1970s -- CHAPTER 5 Film Education during the 1970s -- CHAPTER 6 ‘Picking up the Tab’ for the Whole Black Community?: Industrial, Social and Institutional Challenges as Exemplifi ed in Babylon (1980) -- CHAPTER 7 1970s Television: A Self- conscious Decade -- CHAPTER 8 British Graffi ti: Popular Music and Film in the 1970s -- Part II -- CHAPTER 9 Key Players -- CHAPTER 10 Boundaries and Taboos -- CHAPTER 11 Technology and Visual Style -- CHAPTER 12 Social Space -- CHAPTER 13 Cross- over -- CHAPTER 14 Audiences and Reception -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- APPENDIX I Cinema Statistics, Box Office and Related Data -- APPENDIX II Cinema- going at the Southampton Odeon: Exhibition Data and Popular Taste -- APPENDIX III Top Films Shown at Portsmouth Cinemas, 1970–1979 -- Filmography -- Index