- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Orion; New edition edition (15 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752857061
- ISBN-13: 978-0752857060
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.5 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 581,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Shrewd and witty commentary matched by a fine sense of moral outrage."
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HOLLYWOOD ENGLAND is a book of an era as much as of the cinema. The focus of Walker's commentary is American power operating on British talent as, in the sixties, for the first time British cinema achieved a truly national character. It was an era of BILLY LIAR and KES, of the Beatles, musicals, the whole swinging London cycle; of directors such as Richardson, Loach and Russell and stars such as Albert Finney, Michael Caine and Julie Christie. And yet there was the irony that by the end of the decade Hollywood sustained 95% of British film making. Alexander Walker traces the change from the sober reality of post-Suez Britain to the consumer boom, and gives sharp judgements and critical appraisals on the vast variety of American and British film people who made up this extraordinary new wave.
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When Walker sticks to his subject matter he is interesting.Unfortunately the interesting information is interspersed with wordy reviews of some of the films produced which quite frankly i found rather dull.He has interviewed a lot of people who were involved in the British film industry in the 60s so this is a useful record.Unsurprisingly he did not interview Ken Russell with whom he had a famous feud.In this book he damns him with faint praise.
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