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In this definitive and long-awaited history of 1950s British cinema, Sue Harper and Vincent Porter draw extensively on previously unknown archive material to chart the growing rejection of post-war deference by both film-makers and cinema audiences. Competition from television and successive changes in government policy all forced the production industry to become more market-sensitive. The films produced by Rank and Ealing, many of which harked back to wartime structures of feeling, were challenged by those backed by Anglo-Amalgamated and Hammer. The latter knew how to address the rebellious feelings and growing sexual discontents of a new generation of consumers. Even the British Board of Film Censors had to adopt a more liberal attitude. The collapse of the studio system also meant that the screenwriters and the art directors had to cede creative control to a new generation of independent producers and film directors. Harper and Porter explore the effects of these social, cultural, industrial, and economic changes on 1950s British cinema.
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Vincent Porter is Professor of Mass Communications and Director of the Research Centre, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster.
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"No other title aims for such a sense of overview and completeness. The research into primary sources is breathtaking... Essential."--Choice
"No other title aims for such a sense of overview and completeness. The research into primary sources is breathtaking... Essential."--Choice
"No other title aims for such a sense of overview and completeness. The research into primary sources is breathtaking... Essential."--Choice
"No other title aims for such a sense of overview and completeness. The research into primary sources is breathtaking... Essential."--Choice
"No other title aims for such a sense of overview and completeness. The research into primary sources is breathtaking... Essential."--Choice
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 019815934X
- ISBN 13 9780198159346
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages440
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