- Hardcover: 220 pages
- Publisher: Manchester University Press (27 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719064880
- ISBN-13: 978-0719064883
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 16.2 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,672,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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. It includes fresh assessment of maverick directors: Pat Jackson, Robert Hamer and Joseph Losey, and even of a maverick critic, Raymond Durgnat. There are also personal insights from those individually implicated in 1950s cinema: Corin Redgrave on Michael Redgrave, Isabel Quigly on film reviewing and Bryony Dixon of the BFI on archiving and preservation.
About the Author
Ia MacKillop is Professor of English Literature at the Unviersity of Sheffield. Neil Sinyard is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Hull.
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The editors and authors have opened my eyes to many British films of the 1950s that sound perfectly fascinating and which I have never seen. Corin Redgrave delivers a paper on his father's film work which makes one yearn to see more of Michael Redgrave's films. There's a splendid article on B-movie production in the 1950s that focusses in on "Tympean Films," and shows that B-movies can sometimes embody more of social reality than the A pictures because they do so more or less by accident. Robert Giddings reads the Dirk Bogarde version of A TALE OF TWO CITIES in light of the Cold War, and Dirk figures heavily in Alison Platt's piquant essay, "Boys, Ballet, and Begonias: The SPANISH GARDENER and its analogues." Sarah Kasen gives a straightforward account of the place of film in the Festival of Britain, and Tony Aldgate shows the places in which the gay-themed SERIOUS CHARGE had trouble making it to the screen with all its bits intact. One stupid note spoils the whole: The timeline appended to the volume shows that the only event in UK literature worth recording in 1955 was the publication of F.R. Leavis' "DH LAWRENCE, NOVELIST." i don't think so! This bizarre anomaly is explained by the fact that one of the editors (Ian Mackillop) is the world's #1 Leavis expert and it is he who is charged with the uphill task of resuscitating Leavis' thoroughly torpid reputation.
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