Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered

ISBN-13: 9781474443890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

PETRIE DUNCAN

Spis treści

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