Seventies British Cinema

Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema, perhaps because the industry, facing near economic collapse, turned to 'unacceptable' low culture genres such as sexploitation comedies or extreme horror.

The contributors to this new collection argue that 1970s cinema is ripe for reappraisal: giving serious critical attention to populist genre f...