Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered / / Laura Mayne, Duncan Petrie, Melanie Williams.

Re-evaluates a critically neglected period in British film historyOrganised around four themes: stardom; film production, film style and the wider cultural contextActs as a companion volume to the monograph Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British CinemaThis collection of exciting new research...

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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 (280 p.) :; 28 B/W illustrations
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
FIGURES AND TABLES --
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS --
INTRODUCTION --
PART ONE STARS AND STARDOM --
1. MALE STARDOM IN 1960s BRITISH CINEMA --
2. ‘REBEL REBEL’?: OLIVER REED IN THE 1960s --
3. CAROL WHITE: THE BARDOT OF BATTERSEA --
4. ‘THE OLD WAVE AT WORK’: THE TRANSATLANTIC STARDOM OF THE BRITISH CHARACTER ACTRESS IN THE 1960s --
PART TWO CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS --
5. WOODERY-POKERY: CHARLES WOOD’S SIXTIES SCREENWRITING --
6. ‘BEYOND NATURALISM’: JOCELYN HERBERT, IF . . . (1968) AND DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE IN 1960s BRITISH CINEMA --
7. KES: FROM PAGE TO SCREEN --
8. ‘I’D LIKE TO REMEMBER YOU AS YOU ARE – AS JUST A GRUMPY OLD MAN’: JOSEPH LOSEY AND THE MAKING OF FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE (1970) --
PART THREE STYLE AND GENRE --
9. ‘WHOLESOME ROUGH STUFF’: HAMMER FILMS AND THE ‘A’ AND ‘U’ CERTIFICATE, 1959–65 --
10. WIDESCREEN PYROTECHNICS: SHOT COMPOSITION AND STAGING IN THE COLD WAR FILMS OF JOSEPH LOSEY AND SIDNEY J. FURIE --
11. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE COLOURFUL CORPORATE FANTASY IN 1960s BRITISH CINEMA --
12. WITCHFINDERS AND SORCERERS: SORCERY AND COUNTERCULTURE IN THE WORK OF MICHAEL REEVES --
PART FOUR CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS --
13. ‘AN IMPULSE OF ANGER, INSTANTLY REGRETTED’: REBELLION AND REACTION IN THE EARLY-1960s NAVAL FILM --
14. NARRATIVES OF RACE AND IDENTITY IN SIXTIES BRITISH CINEMA --
15. PANIC AT THE DISCO: BRAINWASHING, ALIENATION AND THE DISCOTHEQUE IN SWINGING LONDON FILMS --
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Summary:Re-evaluates a critically neglected period in British film historyOrganised around four themes: stardom; film production, film style and the wider cultural contextActs as a companion volume to the monograph Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British CinemaThis collection of exciting new research on British cinema of the 1960s reconsiders and reframes the film culture that emerged from that tumultuous decade. Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution of production personnel beyond the director, and discusses how cultural change is reflected in both film style and cinematic themes. With perspectives and insights from established scholars and new critical voices, Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered draws on under-explored archival resources to explore four key research areas: stars and stardom; creative collaborations in filmmaking; developments in genre and film style; and how the cinema of the period both responded and contributed to social and cultural transformation in the 1960s.ContributorsDavid Cairns, Edinburgh College of ArtLlewella Chapman, University of East AngliaPhillip Drummond, New York University in LondonPaul Frith, University of East AngliaMark Fryers, University of East Anglia and NYU LondonDavid Forrest, University of SheffieldCaroline Langhorst, De Montfort University Victoria Lowe, University of ManchesterLaura Mayne, University of HullClaire Mortimer, independent scholarDuncan Petrie, University of YorkSteven Roberts, University of BristolCarolyn Rickards, University of BristolSophia Satchell-Baeza, University of the Arts London and De Montfort UniversityVirginie Sélavy, independent scholarAndrew Spicer, University of the West of England BristolMargherita Sprio, University of WestminsterSue Vice, University of Sheffield Melanie Williams, University of East Anglia"
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781474443906
9783110780413
DOI:10.1515/9781474443906
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Laura Mayne, Duncan Petrie, Melanie Williams.