Roy Ward Baker

Informationen zum Autor Geoff Mayer is Chair of the Cinema Studies Program at La Trobe University, Australia Klappentext This book traces the career of one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry over more than sixty years, who directed landmark British films, worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Rank in Hollywood, moved to television series such as 'The Avengers' and re-emerged as a major director of science fiction and horror. Zusammenfassung This book traces the career of one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry over more than sixty years! who directed landmark British films! worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Rank in Hollywood! moved to television series such as 'The Avengers' and re-emerged as a major director of science fiction and horror. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of platesSeries Editors' ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction: A classical director working in a melodramatic force field2. 'Realism' - 'Flame in the Streets' and 'A Night to Remember'3. 'A morbid sensibility': 1947-19614. 'Roy Ward Baker': Hammer and Amicus5. Conclusion: 'The One That Got Away'FilmographySelect BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Mayer, Mayer Geoff
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2011
• EAN: 9780719063558
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6355-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: British Film-Makers; British Film-Makers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director