Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Petrie, Duncan,
Mayne, Laura,
Williams, Melanie,
MitwirkendeR:
Cairns, David,
Chapman, Llewella,
Drummond, Phillip,
Forrest, David,
Frith, Paul,
Fryers, Mark,
Langhorst, Caroline,
Lowe, Vicky,
Mortimer, Claire,
Petrie, Duncan,
Rickards, Carolyn,
Roberts, Steven,
Satchell-Baeza, Sophia,
Spicer, Andrew,
Sprio, Margherita,
Sélavy, Virginie,
Vice, Sue,
Williams, Melanie,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • INDEX

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