Overview

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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Author:   Duncan Petrie (Professor of Film, University of York) ,  Melanie Williams (Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia) ,  Laura Mayne (Lecturer in Film and Media, University of Hull)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781474443890

ISBN 10:   1474443893
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   14 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

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

Author Information

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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