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Seventies British Cinema
Robert Shail
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Description for Seventies British Cinema
Paperback. This collection provides an illuminating and enjoyable guide to the popular genres, contexts and styles of film production, key films and film-makers of British cinema in the 1970s, addressing films such as 'The Wicker Man', genres such as punk and sexploitation, and series such as the Bond and 'Carry On' films. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 172 x 14. Weight in Grams: 270.
Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema, perhaps because the industry, facing near economic collapse, turned to 'unacceptable' low culture genres such as sexploitation comedies or extreme horror.
The contributors to this new collection argue that 1970s cinema is ripe for reappraisal: giving serious critical attention to populist genre films, they also consider the development of a British art cinema in the work of Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway, and the beginnings ... Read more
Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema, perhaps because the industry, facing near economic collapse, turned to 'unacceptable' low culture genres such as sexploitation comedies or extreme horror.
The contributors to this new collection argue that 1970s cinema is ripe for reappraisal: giving serious critical attention to populist genre films, they also consider the development of a British art cinema in the work of Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway, and the beginnings ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844572731
SKU
V9781844572731
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99-10
About Robert Shail
The Editor: Robert Shail is Head of the Department of Film and Media at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He is the author of Stanley Baker: A Life in Film (2008) and British Film Directors: A Critical Guide (2007).
Reviews for Seventies British Cinema
...a welcome contribution to the field...' - Scope