UID:
kobvindex_HPB437158012
Format:
1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:
9781847790309
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1847790305
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0719064880
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9780719064883
Content:
This 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.
Note:
Contents; Acknowledgements; A 1950s timeline; 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 auteurism in 1950s Britain erik hedling; Mirroring England; National snapshots: fixing the past in English war films fred inglis; Film and the Festival of Britain sarah easen; The national health: Pat Jackson's White Corridors charles barr; The long shadow: Robert Hamer after Ealing philip kemp.
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'If they want culture, they pay': consumerism and alienation in 1950s comedies dave rolinsonBoys, ballet and begonias: The Spanish Gardener and its analogues alison platt; Intimate stranger: the early British films of Joseph Losey neil sinyard; Painfully squalid?; Women of Twilight kerry kidd; Yield to the Night melanie williams; From script to screen: Serious Charge and film censorship tony aldgate; Housewife's choice: Woman in a Dressing Gown melanie williams; Adaptibility; Too theatrical.
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English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780719064883
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
