British Cinema of the 1950s
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English
ISBN
0-7190-6488-0
Contents
Acknowledgements
A 1950s timeline
Celebrating British cinema of the 1950s ian mackillop and neil sinyard
Critics
Raymond Durgnat and A Mirror for England robert murphy
Lindsay Anderson: Sequence and the rise of auteurism in 1950s Britain erik hedling
Mirroring England
National snapshots: fixing the past in English war films fred inglis
Film and the Festival of Britain sarah easen
The national health: Pat Jackson’s White Corridors charles barr
The long shadow: Robert Hamer after Ealing philip kemp
‘If they want culture, they pay’: consumerism and alienation in 1950s comedies dave rolinson
Boys, ballet and begonias: The Spanish Gardener and its analogues alison platt
Intimate stranger: the early British films of Joseph Losey neil sinyard
Painfully squalid?
Women of Twilight kerry kidd
Yield to the Night melanie williams
From script to screen: Serious Charge and film censorship tony aldgate
Housewife’s choice: Woman in a Dressing Gown melanie williams
Adaptibility
Too theatrical by half? The Admirable Crichton and Look Back in Anger stephen lacey
A Tale of Two Cities and the Cold War robert giddings
Value for money: Baker and Berman, and Tempean Films brian mcfarlane
Adaptable Terence Rattigan: Separate Tables, separate entities? dominic shellard
Personal views
Archiving the 1950s bryony dixon
Being a film reviewer in the 1950s isabel quigly
Michael Redgrave and The Mountebank’s Tale corin redgrave
Index
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