{"product_id":"british-cinema-of-the-1950s-9780719064890","title":"British cinema of the 1950s","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eCelebrating British Cinema of the 1950s - Ian MacKillop and Neil Sinyard\u003cbr\u003eCritics\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Durgnat and A Mirror for England - Robert Murphy\u003cbr\u003eLindsay Anderson: Sequence and the Rise of the British Auterism - Erik Hedling\u003cbr\u003eMirroring England\u003cbr\u003eNational Snapshots: Fixing the Past in English War Films - Fred Inglis\u003cbr\u003eFilm and the Festival of Britain - Sarah Easen\u003cbr\u003ePat Jackson's White Corridors - Charles Barr\u003cbr\u003eThe Long Shadow: Robert Hamer after Ealing - Philip Kemp\u003cbr\u003eIf They Want Culture, They Pay: Consumerism and Alienation in 1950s Comedies - Dave Rolinson\u003cbr\u003eBoys, Ballet and Begonias: The Spanish Gardener and its Analogues - Alison Platt\u003cbr\u003e'The Case of Joseph Losey': His Early British Films - Neil Sinyard\u003cbr\u003ePainfully Squalid? \u003cbr\u003eWomen of Twilight - Kerry Kidd\u003cbr\u003eYield to the Night - Melanie WIlliams\u003cbr\u003eFrom Script to Screen: Film Censorship and Serious Charge - Tony Aldgate\u003cbr\u003eHousewife's Choice: Woman in a Dressing Gown - Melanie Williams\u003cbr\u003eAdaptibility\u003cbr\u003eToo Theatrical by Half? The Admirable Crichton and Look Back in Anger - Stephen Lacey\u003cbr\u003eThe Cold War and A Tale of Two Cities - Robert Giddings\u003cbr\u003eValue for Money: Baker and Berman, and Tempean Films - Brian MacFarlane\u003cbr\u003eAdaptble Terence Rattigan. Separate Tables, Separate Entities? - Dominic Shellard\u003cbr\u003ePersonal Views\u003cbr\u003eArchiving the 1950s - Bryony Dixon\u003cbr\u003eBeing the Film Reviewer in the 1950s - Isabel Quigly\u003cbr\u003eMichael Redgrave and the Mountebank's Tale - Corin Redgrave\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037295903063,"sku":"9780719064890","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719064890.jpg?v=1750935210","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/british-cinema-of-the-1950s-9780719064890","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}