Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered

Duncan Petrie, Melanie Williams, Laura Mayne (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4388-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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 Sélavy

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 Discothèque in Swinging London films; Sophia Satchell-Baeza

Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2020
Zusatzinfo	28 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	568 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-4388-5 / 1474443885
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4388-3 / 9781474443883
Zustand	Neuware