British cinema of the 1950s a celebration
This book offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British cinema. Twenty writers contribute essays that rediscover and reassess the productions of the Festival of Britain decade, during which the vitality of wartime film-making...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press
2003
2018. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427390906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A 1950s timeline
- Celebrating British cinema of the 1950s
- Raymond Durgnat and A Mirror for England
- Lindsay Anderson
- Mirroring England
- National snapshots
- Film and the Festival of Britain
- The national health
- The long shadow
- 'If they want culture, they pay'
- Boys, ballet and begonias
- Intimate stranger
- Women of Twilight
- Yield to the Night
- From script to screen
- Housewife's choice
- Adaptibility
- Too theatrical by half?
- A Tale of Two Cities and the Cold War
- Value for money
- Adaptable Terence Rattigan
- Personal views
- Archiving the 1950s
- Being a film reviewer in the 1950s
- Michael Redgrave and The Mountebank's Tale
- Index
