{"product_id":"adult-themes-9781501375279","title":"Adult Themes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween the late 1950s and mid-1970s, British cinema experienced an explosion of X-certificated films. In parallel with an era marked by social, political, and sexual ferment and upheaval, British filmmakers and censors pushed and guarded the permissible limits of violence, horror, revolt, and sexuality on screen. \u003ci\u003eAdult Themes\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume entirely devoted to the exploration of British X certificate films across this transformative period, since identified as the long 1960s'. How did the British Board of Film Censors, harried on one side by the censorious and moralistic, and beset on the other by demands for greater artistic freedom, oversee and manage this provocative body of films? How did the freedoms and restrictions of the X certificate hasten, determine, and reshape post-war British cinema into an artistic, exploitational, and unapologetically adult medium? Contributors to this collection consider these central questions as they take us to swinging parties, on youth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdult Themes \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a full range of fascinating insights into Britain’s film culture across the long 1960s, specifically the deployment of the X certificate as a means of mapping previously uncharted territory in an increasingly permissive social climate. Taking in such varied films as \u003ci\u003ePeeping Tom, The Party’s Over, Secrets of a Windmill Girl, 10 Rillington Place and Zee and Co\u003c\/i\u003e, made and released during John Trevelyan’s liberalised leadership of the British Board of Film Censors, the twelve chapters (plus a thoughtful editors’ introduction) provide new perspectives on how films of this era responded to, mediated, and sometimes anticipated attitudinal change  - or directly challenged the status quo – by means of the new possibilities granted to them by the ‘X’. Highly recommended reading for those interested in British cultural history, the Sixties, censorship and regulation, and the always contested cinematic terrains of sex and violence, crime and horror. * Melanie Williams, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia, UK *\u003cbr\u003eI well remember the British X certificate and how I sneaked into my first one -- \u003ci\u003eCircus of Horrors\u003c\/i\u003e (1960) -- in those distant days of yesteryear. These co-editors and their contributors have performed an indispensable job in covering such a wide area and providing information that will form indispensable reading for generations to come. Well-researched, expertly written in clear and concise ways and attuned to significant issues of culture and history, this will become a definitive work in this area for years to come. * Tony Williams, Professor of Film and Literature, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements   List of illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e   Introduction: ‘Passed As Only Suitable for Exhibition to Adult Audiences: X’ \u003ci\u003eAnne Etienne (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity College Cork, Ireland)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Benjamin Halligan (University of Wolverhampton, UK), and Christopher Weedman (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   1.  Green Penguin Films \u003ci\u003eKim Newman (Independent Scholar)\u003c\/i\u003e   2. The Commercial Idealism of Controversial Cinema: Raymond Stross and the Censorship of \u003ci\u003eThe Flesh Is Weak\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Weedman (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   3. Colour, Realism and the X Certificate: \u003ci\u003eHorrors of the Black Museum \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Peeping Tom \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSarah Street (University of Bristol, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   4. Mediating Desire: Karel Reisz’s Adaptation of \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night and Sunday Morning\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSimon Lee (Texas State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   5.\u003ci\u003e Lolita\u003c\/i\u003e, Censorship, and Controversy: The Archival Remains of the Dispute Between Canon L. J. Collins and Stanley Kubrick  \u003ci\u003eJames Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   6. Paternalism, Bohemianism, and the X Certificate: \u003ci\u003eThe Party’s Over\u003c\/i\u003e and the Pre-Swinging Set \u003ci\u003eKevin M. Flanagan (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Mason University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   7. Mediatising Modernity: Femininity in the X-Rated Swinging London Film \u003ci\u003eMoya Luckett (Texas State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   8.     What Are the X-Rated Secrets of the Windmill Girls? \u003ci\u003eAdrian Smith (Independent Scholar)\u003c\/i\u003e   9. The Potent Sexuality of the Middle-Aged Woman: Alice Aisgill, Karen Stone, Zee Blakeley and Ruby \u003ci\u003eLucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   10.  Censoring Carmilla: Lesbian Vampires in Hammer Horror \u003ci\u003eClaire Henry (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMassey University, Aotearoa New Zealand)\u003c\/i\u003e   11.   ‘The horror film to end all horror films’: \u003ci\u003e10 Rillington Place\u003c\/i\u003e and the British Board of Film Censors’ Shifting Policy on True Crime \u003ci\u003eTim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSnelson (University of East Anglia, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   12.  Class and Classification: The British Board of Film Censors’ Reception of Horror at the Time of the Festival of Light \u003ci\u003eBenjamin Halligan (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Wolverhampton, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49531381121367,"sku":"9781501375279","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501375279.jpg?v=1731882881","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/adult-themes-9781501375279","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}