This collection of exciting new research on British cinema of the 1960s reconsiders and reframes the film culture that emerged from that tumultuous decade. Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution of production personnel beyond the director, and discusses how cultural change is reflected in both film style and cinematic themes.
With perspectives and insights from established scholars and new critical voices, Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered draws on under-explored archival resources to explore four key research areas: stars and stardom; creative collaborations in filmmaking; developments in genre and film style; and how the cinema of the period both responded and contributed to social and cultural transformation in the 1960s.
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From Carol White to Edith Evans, psychedelia to social grimness, fantasy to finance, this admirable collection captures the novelties and continuities of the 1960s. Contributors draw on archival sources to provide rewarding accounts which open up one of the most productive decades of British cinema to new and valuable scrutiny. -- Professor Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow
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28 black and white illustrations
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Höhe: 232 mm
Breite: 154 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-1-4744-4389-0 (9781474443890)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Duncan Petrie is Professor of Film at the University of York. His publications include Creativity and Constraint in the British Film Industry (1991), The British Cinematographer (1996), Screening Scotland (2000), Contemporary Scottish Fictions (2004), Shot in New Zealand (2007) and Educating Film-Makers (2014). Melanie Williams is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. Her publications include the monographs David Lean (2014) and Female Stars of British Cinema (2017) and the co-edited collections British Women's Cinema (2009) and Ealing Revisited (2012). Laura Mayne is a Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Hull
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Professor of FilmUniversity of York
Reader in Film and Television StudiesUniversity of East Anglia
Lecturer in Film and MediaUniversity of Hull
Introduction; Duncan Petrie and Melanie Williams
PART ONE: STARS AND STARDOM
Male Stardom in 1960s British Cinema; Andrew Spicer
'Rebel Rebel'?: Oliver Reed in the 1960s; Caroline Langhorst
Carol White: The Bardot of Battersea; Margherita Sprio
'The Old Wave at Work': The Transatlantic Stardom of the British Character Actress in the 1960s; Claire Mortimer
PART TWO: CREATIVE COLLABORATION
Woodery-pokery: Charles Wood's Sixties Screenwriting; David Cairns
'Beyond Naturalism': Jocelyn Herbert, If ....(1968) and design for performance in 1960s British cinema; Vicky Lowe
Kes: from page to screen; David Forrest and Sue Vice
'I'd like to remember you as you are - as just a grumpy old man': Joseph Losey and Figures in a Landscape (1970); Llewella Chapman
PART THREE: STYLE AND GENRE
'Wholesome rough stuff': Hammer Films and the 'A' and 'U' Certificate, 1959-65; Paul Frith
Widescreen Pyrotechnics: Shot Composition and Staging in the Cold War Films of Joseph Losey and Sidney J. Furie; Steven Roberts
The Rise and Fall of the Colourful Corporate Fantasy in 1960s British Cinema; Carolyn Rickards
Witchfinders and Sorcerers: Sorcery and counterculture in the work of Michael Reeves; Virginie Selavy
PART FOUR: CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS
'An Impulse of Anger, Instantly Regretted': Rebellion and Reaction in the early 1960s Naval Film; Mark Fryers
Narratives of Race and Identity in Sixties British Cinema; Phillip Drummond
Panic at the Disco: Brainwashing, Alienation, and the Discotheque in Swinging London films; Sophia Satchell-Baeza
