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Informationen zum Autor Ian MacKillop is Professor of English Literature at the Unviersity of Sheffield. Neil Sinyard is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Hull Klappentext Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history. Covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women's pictures and theatrical adaptations; as well as social issues which affect film-making, such as censorship. Includes fresh assessment of maverick directors; Pat Jackson, Robert Hamer and Joseph Losey, and even of a maverick critic Raymond Durgnat. Features personal insights from those inidividually implicated in 1950s cinema; Corin Redgrave on Michael Redgrave, Isabel Quigly on film reviewing, and Bryony Dixon of the BFI on archiving and preservation. Presents a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about 1950s film and rediscovers the Festival of Britain decade.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. Zusammenfassung This re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history covers a variety of genres! such as B-movies! war films! women's pictures and theatrical adaptations! as well as social issues which affect film-making! such as censorship. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsContentsCelebrating British Cinema of the 1950s - Ian MacKillop and Neil SinyardCriticsRaymond Durgnat and A Mirror for England - Robert MurphyLindsay Anderson: Sequence and the Rise of the British Auterism - Erik HedlingMirroring EnglandNational Snapshots: Fixing the Past in English War Films - Fred InglisFilm and the Festival of Britain - Sarah EasenPat Jackson's White Corridors - Charles BarrThe Long Shadow: Robert Hamer after Ealing - Philip KempIf They Want Culture, They Pay: Consumerism and Alienation in 1950s Comedies - Dave RolinsonBoys, Ballet and Begonias: The Spanish Gardener and its Analogues - Alison Platt'The Case of Joseph Losey': His Early British Films - Neil SinyardPainfully Squalid? Women of Twilight - Kerry KiddYield to the Night - Melanie WIlliamsFrom Script to Screen: Film Censorship and Serious Charge - Tony AldgateHousewife's Choice: Woman in a Dressing Gown - Melanie WilliamsAdaptibilityToo Theatrical by Half? The Admirable Crichton and Look Back in Anger - Stephen LaceyThe Cold War and A Tale of Two Cities - Robert GiddingsValue for Money: Baker and Berman, and Tempean Films - Brian MacFarlaneAdaptble Terence Rattigan. Separate Tables, Separate Entities? - Dominic ShellardPersonal ViewsArchiving the 1950s - Bryony DixonBeing the Film Reviewer in the 1950s - Isabel QuiglyMichael Redgrave and the Mountebank's Tale - Corin RedgraveIndex...
