Seventies British Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781844572731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str.

Robert Shail

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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 thisnew collectionargue that 1970s cinemais ripe for reappraisal: giving serious critical attention topopulist genre films, theyalso consider the development of a British art cinema inthe work of Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway, and the beginnings ofan independent sector fostered by the BFIProduction Board andproducers like Don Boyd. A host of highly individual directors managed toproduce interesting andcinematically innovative workagainst the odds, from Nicolas Roeg to Ken Russellto Mike Hodges. As well as providing a historical and cinematic context for understanding Seventies cinema, the volumealsofeatures chapters addressing Hammer horror, the Carry On films, Bond films of the Roger Moore period, Jubilee andother films thatresponded toPunk rock; heritage cinema and case studies of keyseventies films such as The Wicker Man and Straw Dogs.In all, the book provides the final missing piece in the rediscovery of British cinema's complex and protean history.
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