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

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, i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 8 B/W tables 20 B/W halftones 20 film stills
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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