General:
Name: British Cinema In The 1950s A Celebration
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Book:
Title: British Cinema in the 1950’s: a celebration
Author: Ian MacKillop, Neil Sinyard
Language: English
Year: 2003
Publisher: Manchester University Press; 1st edition
ISBN: 978-0719064890
Total pages: 249
Description:
Offers 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.