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Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema

Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema

Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema

Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema

Overview

Half a century on, the fascination with the 1960s continues to generate strong intellectual and emotional responses - both positive and negative - and this is no less true in the arena of film. Making substantial use of a range of new and underexplored archive resources that provide a wealth of new information, insight and knowledge on the period in question, this book brings fresh perspectives on the major resurgence of creativity and international appeal experienced by British cinema in the 1960s.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474423120
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 02/16/2021
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard Farmer is Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of East Anglia.

Laura Mayne is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the Transformation and Tradition in Sixties British Cinema project, based at the University of York.

Duncan Petrie is Professor of Film at the University of York. He has written and edited numerous books on British and Scottish Cinema including Creativity and Constraint in the British Film Industry, The British Cinematographer and Screening Scotland.

Melanie Williams is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia. She has published work on British cinema in many journals and edited collections and is the author of Prisoners of Gender: Women in the Films of J. Lee Thompson and the co-editor of British Women's Cinema, Ealing Revisited and Mamma Mia! The Movie: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section One: The Industry and Its Institutions
Chapter One: Mapping the British Film Industry in the 1960s
Chapter Two: Whither Public Support? The Fluctuating Fortunes of the National Film Finance Corporation
Chapter Three: Carry On Down the Kitchen Sink: Low-Budget Independent Production and the Franchise Film
Chapter Four: Finding Alternative Models: From Low Budget Genres to Subsidised Art Film
Chapter Five: Hollywood England Reassessed: The American Presence in British Cinema

Section Two: Production Cultures: Creative People and Creative Industries in the 1960s
Chapter Six: Film Personnel in Britain in the 1960s
Chapter Seven: British cinema and British Television Advertising
Chapter Eight: Dressing sixties cinema: fashion and British film
Chapter Nine: New screens for old: interactions between film and television
Chapter Ten: Cinema and popular music

Section Three: National branding: Selling British cinema, Home and Abroad
Chapter Eleven: National Identity as a Brand: Promoting British Films at Home and Abroad
Chapter Twelve: The Critical Response to British Films

Conclusion: The Legacy of Sixties British Cinema

What People are Saying About This

Scholarly and authoritative, yet lucid and intelligible, this is a timely new assessment of British cinema's most vibrant decade. The authors' collective approach provides valuable insights which demonstrate there was much more to 60s film culture than the Beatles and Bond.　Undoubtedly one of the most important contributions to British cinema history of recent times.

Professor James Chapman: editor of the Historical Journal of Film

Scholarly and authoritative, yet lucid and intelligible, this is a timely new assessment of British cinema's most vibrant decade. The authors' collective approach provides valuable insights which demonstrate there was much more to 60s film culture than the Beatles and Bond.　Undoubtedly one of the most important contributions to British cinema history of recent times.

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