Synopses & Reviews
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. It includes fresh assessment of maverick directors: Pat Jackson, Robert Hamer and Joseph Losey, and even of a maverick critic, Raymond Durgnat. There are also personal insights from those individually implicated in 1950s cinema: Corin Redgrave on Michael Redgrave, Isabel Quigly on film reviewing and Bryony Dixon of the BFI on archiving and preservation.
Synopsis
Contributors: Ian MacKillop & Neil Sinyard - Robert Murphy - Erik Hedling - Fred Inglis - Sarah Easen - Charles Barr - Philip Kemp - Dave Rolinson - Alison Platt - Neil Sinyard - Kerry Kidd - Melanie Williams - Tony Aldgate - Melanie Williams - Stephen Lacey - Robert Giddings - Brian MacFarlane - Dominic Shellard - Bryony Dixon - Isabel Quigly - Corin Redgrave
Synopsis
This book offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lackluster period of the British film history.
Synopsis
This book offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lackluster period of the British cinema. Twenty writers contribute essays that rediscover and reassess the productions of the Festival of Britain decade, during which the vitality of wartime film-making flowed into new forms. Topics covered include genres such as the B-film, the war film, the woman's picture, the theatrical adaptation and comedy; also social issues such as censorship and the screen representation of childhood.
About the Author
Ian MacKillop is Professor of English Literature, Unviersity of Sheffield.
Neil Sinyard is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull.