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British cinema of the 1950s : a celebration / edited by Ian MacKillop and Neil Sinyard.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Great Britain--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. by Palgrave, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 individually implicated in 1950's 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 1950's film and rediscovers the Festival of Britain decade.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- A 1950's timeline
- Celebrating British cinema of the 1950's
- Critics
- Mirroring England
- Painfully squalid? - Adaptability
- Personal views
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-73446-9
- 9786610734467
- 1-84779-030-5
- 1-4175-7643-X
- OCLC:
- 437158012
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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