British Cinema of the 1950s - The Decline of Deference

Zusatztext Where it really scores strongly is in giving credit to people who don't normally appear in histories such as script editors! minor producers: names you see on the credits but never notice. It's also good at delineating the tensions within organisations and their results. This book does for 50s cinema what Rachael Low's The History of British Film did for pre-war cinema. If you need to know about the period! this is the place to start. Klappentext In this definitive and long-awaited history of 1950s British cinema, Sue Harper and Vincent Porter draw extensively on previously unknown archive material to chart the growing rejection of post-war deference by both film-makers and cinema audiences. Harper and Porter explore the effects of social, cultural, and economic change on the 1950s film industry in Britain, looking in particular at the impact of the rise of television, successive changes in government policy,and the collapse of the studio system. Zusammenfassung In this definitive and long-awaited history of 1950s British cinema! Sue Harper and Vincent Porter draw extensively on previously unknown archive material to chart the growing rejection of post-war deference by both film-makers and cinema audiences. Competition from television and successive changes in government policy all forced the production industry to become more market-sensitive. The films produced by Rank and Ealing! many of which harked back to wartimestructures of feeling! were challenged by those backed by Anglo-Amalgamated and Hammer. The latter knew how to address the rebellious feelings and growing sexual discontents of a new generation of consumers. Even the British Board of Film Censors had to adopt a more liberal attitude. The collapse of thestudio system also meant that the screenwriters and the art directors had to cede creative control to a new generation of independent producers and film directors. Harper and Porter explore the effects of these social! cultural! industrial! and economic changes on 1950s British cinema. ...

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• Authors: Sue Harper, Sue (Professor of Film History Harper, Sue Porter Harper, Harper Sue, Vincent Porter, Vincent (Professor of Mass Communications and Director of the Research Centre Porter, Porter Vincent
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2007
• EAN: 9780198159353
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815935-3
• No. of pages: 420
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, c 1950 to c 1959, Film, TV and Radio industries, Cinema Industry, Film Theory & Criticism, C 1945 To C 1960, Film history, theory or criticism