UID:
almahu_9948635440202882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2018. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781526137272
Series Statement:
Manchester Film Studies
Content:
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.
Note:
Made available via: manchesterhive.
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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 --AdaptibilityToo 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.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: MacKillop, Ian; Sinyard, Neil [editors]. British cinema of the 1950s: a celebration, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2003, ISBN 9780719064883
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526137272
URL:
http://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526137272/9781526137272.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526137272
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