Soho on Screen : : Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963 / / Jingan Young.
Despite Soho’s rich cultural history, there remains an absence of work on the depiction of the popular neighbourhood in film. Soho on Screen provides one of the first studies of Soho within postwar British cinema. Drawing upon historical, cultural and urban studies of the area, this book explores tw...
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Young, Jingan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Soho on Screen : Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963 / Jingan Young. New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (262 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Figure 0.1. Map of Soho, 1720 -- 1 Tracking Shot: Soho Square to Wardour Street, London’s ‘Film Row’ -- 2 Soho’s Bohemian-Cosmopolitans and Postwar British Cinema -- 3 ‘God Is Everywhere!’: Engineering the Immigrant Landscape of Miracle in Soho (1957) -- 4 Soho-Hollywood: The Birth of the Soho ‘B’ Film -- 5 Old Perils, New Pleasures: West End Jungle (1961) and the Birth of Commercial Vice -- 6 ‘An’ I Fort Jews Were Supposed to Be Lucky!’: Jewish Wide Boys, Johnny Jackson and Sammy Lee -- 7 Soho Melodrama: Cinematic Spaces of Sexual Blackmail, The Flesh Is Weak (1957) and The Shakedown (1960) -- 8 Subversive Female Sexualities and the Soho Coffee Bar: Beat Girl (1960) and Rag Doll (1961) -- 9 Soho Strip Clubs (Part One): The Windmill Theatre and Its Cinematic Legacy -- 10 Soho Strip Clubs (Part Two): The Stage and the Dressing Room -- Conclusion. ‘Warm-Hearted Tarts’ and the Year ‘Old Soho’ Died: Campaigns, Rebirth and The World Ten Times Over (1963) -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Despite Soho’s rich cultural history, there remains an absence of work on the depiction of the popular neighbourhood in film. Soho on Screen provides one of the first studies of Soho within postwar British cinema. Drawing upon historical, cultural and urban studies of the area, this book explores twelve films and theatrically released documentaries from a filmography of over one hundred Soho set productions. While predominantly focusing on low-budget, exploitation films which are exemplars of British and international filmmaking, Young also offers new readings of star and director biographies, from Laurence Harvey to Emeric Pressburger, and in so doing enlivens discussion on filmmaking in a time and place of intense social transformation, technological innovation and growing permissiveness. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022) Motion pictures England History 20th century. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. bisacsh Bradshaw, Peter, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110997668 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800734784 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800734784 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800734784/original |
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Young, Jingan, Soho on Screen : Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963 / Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Figure 0.1. Map of Soho, 1720 -- 1 Tracking Shot: Soho Square to Wardour Street, London’s ‘Film Row’ -- 2 Soho’s Bohemian-Cosmopolitans and Postwar British Cinema -- 3 ‘God Is Everywhere!’: Engineering the Immigrant Landscape of Miracle in Soho (1957) -- 4 Soho-Hollywood: The Birth of the Soho ‘B’ Film -- 5 Old Perils, New Pleasures: West End Jungle (1961) and the Birth of Commercial Vice -- 6 ‘An’ I Fort Jews Were Supposed to Be Lucky!’: Jewish Wide Boys, Johnny Jackson and Sammy Lee -- 7 Soho Melodrama: Cinematic Spaces of Sexual Blackmail, The Flesh Is Weak (1957) and The Shakedown (1960) -- 8 Subversive Female Sexualities and the Soho Coffee Bar: Beat Girl (1960) and Rag Doll (1961) -- 9 Soho Strip Clubs (Part One): The Windmill Theatre and Its Cinematic Legacy -- 10 Soho Strip Clubs (Part Two): The Stage and the Dressing Room -- Conclusion. ‘Warm-Hearted Tarts’ and the Year ‘Old Soho’ Died: Campaigns, Rebirth and The World Ten Times Over (1963) -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Figure 0.1. Map of Soho, 1720 -- 1 Tracking Shot: Soho Square to Wardour Street, London’s ‘Film Row’ -- 2 Soho’s Bohemian-Cosmopolitans and Postwar British Cinema -- 3 ‘God Is Everywhere!’: Engineering the Immigrant Landscape of Miracle in Soho (1957) -- 4 Soho-Hollywood: The Birth of the Soho ‘B’ Film -- 5 Old Perils, New Pleasures: West End Jungle (1961) and the Birth of Commercial Vice -- 6 ‘An’ I Fort Jews Were Supposed to Be Lucky!’: Jewish Wide Boys, Johnny Jackson and Sammy Lee -- 7 Soho Melodrama: Cinematic Spaces of Sexual Blackmail, The Flesh Is Weak (1957) and The Shakedown (1960) -- 8 Subversive Female Sexualities and the Soho Coffee Bar: Beat Girl (1960) and Rag Doll (1961) -- 9 Soho Strip Clubs (Part One): The Windmill Theatre and Its Cinematic Legacy -- 10 Soho Strip Clubs (Part Two): The Stage and the Dressing Room -- Conclusion. ‘Warm-Hearted Tarts’ and the Year ‘Old Soho’ Died: Campaigns, Rebirth and The World Ten Times Over (1963) -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index |
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