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Seventies British Cinema (Hardcover)
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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 of an independent sector
fostered by the BFI Production Board and producers like Don Boyd. A
host of highly individual directors managed to produce interesting
and cinematically innovative work against the odds, from Nicolas
Roeg to Ken Russell to Mike Hodges. As well as providing a
historical and cinematic context for understanding Seventies
cinema, the volume also features chapters addressing Hammer horror,
the Carry On films, Bond films of the Roger Moore period, Jubilee
and other films that responded to Punk rock; heritage cinema and
case studies of key seventies films such as The Wicker Man and
Straw Dogs. In all, the book provides the final missing piece in
the rediscovery of British cinema's complex and protean history.
Contributors: Ruth Barton, James Chapman, Ian Conrich, Wheeler
Winston Dixon, Christophe Dupin, Steve Gerrard, Sheldon Hall I. Q.
Hunter, James Leggott, Claire Monk, Paul Newland, Dan North, Robert
Shail, Justin Smith and Sarah Street.
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