British cinema of the 1950s

A celebration
Herausgeber: Mackillop, Ian; Sinyard, Neil

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history. Covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women's pictures and theatrical adaptations; as well as social issues which affect film-making, such as censorship. Includes fresh assessment of maverick directors; Pat Jackson, Robert Hamer and Joseph Losey, and even of a maverick critic Raymond Durgnat. Features personal insights from those inidividually implicated in 1950s cinema; Corin Redgrave on Michael Redgrave, Isabel Quigly on film reviewing, and Bryony Dixon of the BFI on archiving and preservation. Presents a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about 1950s film and rediscovers the Festival of Britain decade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9780719064890
• ISBN-10: 0719064899
• Artikelnr.: 21279910

Autorenporträt

Ian MacKillop is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Neil Sinyard is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Contents Celebrating British Cinema of the 1950s
Ian MacKillop and Neil Sinyard Critics Raymond Durgnat and A Mirror for England
Robert Murphy Lindsay Anderson: Sequence and the Rise of the British Auterism
Erik Hedling Mirroring England National Snapshots: Fixing the Past in English War Films
Fred Inglis Film and the Festival of Britain
Sarah Easen Pat Jackson's White Corridors
Charles Barr The Long Shadow: Robert Hamer after Ealing
Philip Kemp If They Want Culture, They Pay: Consumerism and Alienation in 1950s Comedies
Dave Rolinson Boys, Ballet and Begonias: The Spanish Gardener and its Analogues
Alison Platt 'The Case of Joseph Losey': His Early British Films
Neil Sinyard Painfully Squalid? Women of Twilight
Kerry Kidd Yield to the Night
Melanie WIlliams From Script to Screen: Film Censorship and Serious Charge
Tony Aldgate Housewife's Choice: Woman in a Dressing Gown
Melanie Williams Adaptibility Too Theatrical by Half? The Admirable Crichton and Look Back in Anger
Stephen Lacey The Cold War and A Tale of Two Cities
Robert Giddings Value for Money: Baker and Berman, and Tempean Films
Brian MacFarlane Adaptble Terence Rattigan. Separate Tables, Separate Entities?
Dominic Shellard Personal Views Archiving the 1950s
Bryony Dixon Being the Film Reviewer in the 1950s
Isabel Quigly Michael Redgrave and the Mountebank's Tale
Corin Redgrave Index