Rogue Reels: Oppositional Film in Britain

This history of counter-cultural political cinema mixes narrative with first-hand accounts, and the important statements and documents of this movement. The book provides an overview of the different strands of film-making that are still impacting avant-garde and mainstream practice.

Acknowledgments

vi

Introduction

1

(16)

PART I: A SHORT HISTORY

Hope Deferred (1945-65)

17

(18)

Political Background

18

(2)

The Campaign to Change the Mainstream

20

(3)

Union Power

23

(1)

Alternative Production

24

(7)

Independent Distribution

31

(4)

Confrontation and Community (1966-74)

35

(11)

New Politics

35

(6)

New Cinema

41

(5)

Assault on the Mainstream (1974-80)

46

(16)

The National Context

46

(2)

Independent Film Culture-Consolidation

48

(2)

Theory and Practice

50

(3)

Gender and Race

53

(2)

The IFA Campaigns

55

(3)

The IFA and the ACTT

58

(4)

Paradoxical Success (1980-90)

62

(24)

The Advance of the New Right

62

(2)

Technological Change

64

(4)

Growth and Dispersal

68

(6)

The Encounter with Channel Four

74

(5)

Problems of Organisation

79

(7)

Independent Film: A Chronology

86

(7)

PART II: TEXTS AND DOCUMENTS (1971-92)

Introductory Notes

93

(4)

Margaret Dickinson

Film Journals in Britain and France [1971]

97

(5)

Claire Johnston

Notes on Political Cinema [1972]

102

(4)

Jim Pines

A Reflection on the History of the London Film-Makers' Co-op [1986]

106

(3)

Malcolm Le Grice

Les Etats Generaux du Cinema [1972]

109

(4)

Simon Hartog

Nationalising the Film Industry (extract) [1973]

113

(3)

ACTT Nationalisation Forum Report

Black Films in White Britain [1971]

116

(9)

Jim Pines

Notes [1976]

The London Women's Film Group

119

(4)

Patterns of Discrimination (extract) [1975]

ACTT

123

(2)

Letter [1974]

125

(13)

Steve Dwoskin

Independent Film-Making in the 70s [1976]

1976 IFA Conference Organising Committee

126

(11)

Polemic [1975]

First Festival of Independent British Cinema

137

(1)

Edinburgh 76 Magazine: Introduction [1976]

138

(3)

Phil Hardy

Memory, Phantasy, Identity: `Days of Hope' and the Politics of the Past [1977]

141

(5)

Colin MacCabe

Penthesilea' [1974]

146

(3)

Mary Kelly

`The Nightcleaners Part 1' [1975]

149

(4)

Claire Johnston

The Perils of Film Policy [1979]

153

(5)

Simon Hartog

The Independent Film-makers' Association and the Fourth Channel [1980]

158

(4)

John Ellis

Channel Four: Innovation or ITV2? [1980]

IFA

160

(2)

The IFA and the ACTT: A Piece of Paper [1981]

162

(6)

Simon Hartog

Grant-Aided Workshop Production Declaration [1984]

ACTT

163

(5)

The IFA: Film Club/Trade Association [1983]

168

(3)

Frank Abbott

`So That You Can Live (For Shirley)' [1982]

171

(3)

Michael Chanan

Sins of Commission [1992]

174

(14)

Rod Stoneman

Doing without the Broadcast Media [1985]

188

(2)

Julian Petley

Post-Modernism and the Populist Tendency [1985]

190

(7)

Jez Welsh

Sexual Identities: Questions of Difference [1988]

197

(13)

Kobena Mercer

PART III: ORAL HISTORIES

Introductory Notes and Comment

205

(5)

Contemporary Films

210

(6)

Plato Films

216

(8)

Angry Arts Film Society and Liberation Films

224

(23)

Amber

247

(16)

Cinema Action

263

(26)

Sheffield Film Co-op

289

(15)

Black Audio Film Collective

304

(15)

Select Bibliography

319

(7)

Index

326

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