The cinema of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph / Alan Burton and Tim O'Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Alan, 1962- author.

O'Sullivan, Tim, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dearden, Basil, 1911-1971--Criticism and interpretation.

Dearden, Basil.

Relph, Michael, 1915-2004--Criticism and interpretation.

Relph, Michael.

Motion pictures--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

The Cinema of Basil Dearden & Michael Relph

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers the first full systematic assessment and evaluation of the cinema of this important filmmaking partnership. Dearden and Relph came together at the famous Ealing Studios in the wartime period and became the most prolific production team at the studio, contributing such popular and critically acclaimed films as The Captive Heart (1946), The Blue Lamp (1950) and Pool of London (1951). Later in the 1950s, Dearden and Relph branched out into independent production and became particularly associated with a cycle of controversial social problem films that included Sapphire (1959) and Victim (1961).This new study takes an extensive view of the cinema of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph. It considers in detail their contribution to the celebrated achievements of wartime cinema at Ealing, brings a new focus to their post-war films that addressed masculine adjustment in a period of rapid change, takes a fresh look at the prominent group of social problem films within their work, and offers an original study of their later period of filmmaking for the international market in the 1960s. Attention is also given to the significant place of comedy in their cinema and Michael Relph's considerable achievements as an art director. The book will be of interest to all students of film history and a general readership that takes a keen interest in British cinema.

Contents:

Foreword / James Dearden and Simon Relph

Biography and career notes

Introduction : "Two on a tandem" : Dearden and Relph, authorship and British cinema

Apprenticeship and beyond : comedy traditions and film design

The formative period : the war years and the ethos of Ealing

Dramas of masculine adjustment I : tragic melodramas

Dramas of masculine adjustment II : men in action

Dramas of social tension and adjustment

Ethical dilemmas

The international years

Appendix : "Inside Ealing" / Michael Relph.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-345) and index.

ISBN:

9786612620164

9780748671144

0748671145

9781282620162

1282620169

9780748632527

0748632522

OCLC:

638860038