Looking for a New Britain - Action, Time, Vision: Music, Film and TV 1975 - 1986

What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Ths book covers the period 1975 to 1986. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, black cinema, the origins and impact of punk music, political films, comedy, and the rise of a new, commercial, mainstream. It describes over 100 film and TV productions in detail, together with their literary, social and musical influences during a time when profound changes shrank the size of the UK cinema industry.

Summary

What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins...

Product details

• Authors: Simon Matthews
• Publisher: Oldcastle Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2021
• EAN: 9780857304117
• ISBN: 978-0-85730-411-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 12 mm x 250 mm
• Weight: 394 g
• Illustrations: 8pp colour
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, TV, Fernsehen, TV, Film / Genre, Motiv, einzelne Filme, Motiv (Film), Fernsehen - Privatfernsehen, Großbritannien / Geschichte, Politik, Gesellschaft, Recht, Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte, Großbritannien / Kunst, Architektur, Design