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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. -- .
F. R. Leavis was undeniably one of the great thinkers of the
twentieth century. His work on literature exerted a profound and
lasting influence on the teaching of English throughout the world.
The story of his life, as recounted by Ian MacKillop, who was one
of Leavis's students, is therefore a chronicle of the development
of the study of modern literature. MacKillop charts the influences
on Leavis's life and work, from I. A. Richards to T. S. Eliot and
William Empson. He chronicles Leavis's famous public disagreement
with C. P. Snow in the Two Cultures Debate; discusses the genesis
and publication of Leavis's books; and looks at the development of
both the influential magazine Scrutiny and the School of English
Studies at Downing College. MacKillop paints an unforgettable
picture of English village life as he chronicles this world of high
tea, cloistered walks and bitter rivalries in great detail.
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