In Fading Light : : The Films of the Amber Collective / / James Leggott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Leggott, James,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)

For over five decades, the Newcastle-based Amber Film and Photography Collective has been a critical (if often unheralded) force within British documentary filmmaking, producing a variety of innovative works focused on working-class society. Situating their acclaimed output within wider social, political, and historical contexts, In Fading Light provides an accessible introduction to Amber’s output from both national and transnational perspectives, including experimental, low-budget documentaries in the 1970s; more prominent feature films in the 1980s; studies of post-industrial life in the 1990s; and the distinctive perils and opportunities posed by the digital era.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Histories of Amber -- Chapter 2 Salvaging the Past, 1968 to 1980 -- Chapter 3 Can’t Beat It Alone: Current Affairs and Investigations, 1982 to 1988 -- Chapter 4 The Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen Films, 1983 to 1994 -- Chapter 5 Dream On: Drama Features, 1981 to 1991 -- Chapter 6 From the Tyne to the Coalfields: Feature Films, 1995 to 2005 -- Chapter 7 Still Here: Amber in the Twenty-First Century -- Conclusion: Amber at Fifty -- Select Bibliography -- Amber Filmography -- Index