Seventies British Cinema

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ISBN: 9781844572731 | 1844572730
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Copyright: 12/15/2008

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This collection provides an illuminating and enjoyable guide to the popular genres, contexts and styles of film production, key films and film-makers of British cinema in the 1970s, addressing films such as 'The Wicker Man', genres such as punk and sexploitation, and series such as the Bond and 'Carry On' films.

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Debates And Controversies
The British Cinema: The Known Cinema?
British Cinema as National Cinema: Production, Audience and Representation
They Think It's All Over: British Cinema's US Surrender, A View from 2001
Paradise Found and Lost: The Course of British Realism
Lindsay Anderson and the Development of British Art Cinema
The Wrong Sort of Cinema: Refashioning the Heritage Film Debate
British Cult Cinema
Industry, Genre, Representation
British Film Censorship
Exhibition and the Cinema-going Experience
Action, Spectacle and the Boy's Own Tradition in British Cinema
Traditions of the British Horror Film
British Cinema and Black Representation
Exiles and British Cinema
Where Are Those Buggers?: Aspects of Homosexuality in Mainstream British Cinema
British Cinema 1895-1939
Before Blackmail: Silent British Cinema
Big Studio Production in the Pre-Quota Years
Late Silent Britain
The British Documentary Film Movement
British Film and the National Interest, 1927-39
A Despicable Tradition? Quota-quickies in the 1930s
A British Studio System: The Associated British Picture Corporation and the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation in the 1930s
Low-budget British Films in the 1930s
British Cinema From The Second World War To The 70S
The Heart of Britain: British Cinema at War
Melodrama and Femininity in Second World War British Cinema
No Place Like Home: Powell, Pressburger Utopia
Some Lines of Inquiry into Post-war British Crimes
A Song and Dance at the Local: Thoughts on Ealing
Methodism versus the Market-place: The Rank Organisation and British Cinema
Prince Charlie Revisited: British Costume Film in the 1950s
'Twilight women' of 1950s British Cinema
Male Stars, Masculinity and British Cinema, 1945-60
Beyond the New Wave: Realism in British Cinema, 1959-63
Women and 60s British Cinema: The Development of the 'Darling' Girl
Strange Days: British Cinema in the Late 1960s
'Tutte e marchio!': Excess, Masquerade and Performativity in 70s Cinema
Contemporary British Cinema
New Romanticism' and the British Avant-Garde Film in the Early 80s
Internal Decolonisation? British Cinema in the Celtic Fringe
Citylife: Urban Fairy-tales in Late 90s British Cinema
The More Things Change . . . British Cinema in the 90s
Travels in Ladland: The British Gangster Film Cycle, 1998-2001
Asian British Cinema since the 1990s
Bright Hopes, Dark Dreams: A Guide to New British Cinema
Not Flagwaving But Flagdrowning, or Postcards from Post-Britain
Postscript: A Short History of British Cinema
Index
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