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? …”

“…Using a Marxist perspective, it compares the situation of workers in Western and Eastern Europe as represented in both auteurist and popular films, including those of Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrzej Wajda, DušanMakavejev, Jerzy Skolimowski, the Dardenne Brothers, Ulrich Seidl and many others…”