The cinema of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph / / Alan Burton and Tim O'Sullivan [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910806837803321
• Autore: Burton Alan <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009
• ISBN: 0-7486-7114-5; 1-282-62016-9; 9786612620164; 0-7486-3252-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 791.430233092241
• Soggetti: Motion pictures - Great Britain - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-345) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword / James Dearden and Simon Relph -- Biography and career notes -- Introduction : "Two on a tandem" : Dearden and Relph, authorship and British cinema -- Apprenticeship and beyond : comedy traditions and film design -- The formative period : the war years and the ethos of Ealing -- Dramas of masculine adjustment I : tragic melodramas -- Dramas of masculine adjustment II : men in action -- Dramas of social tension and adjustment -- Ethical dilemmas -- The international years -- Appendix : "Inside Ealing" / Michael Relph.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers the first full systematic assessment and evaluation of the cinema of this important filmmaking partnership. Dearden and Relph came together at the famous Ealing Studios in the wartime period and became the most prolific production team at the studio, contributing such popular and critically acclaimed films as The Captive Heart (1946), The Blue Lamp (1950) and Pool of London (1951). Later in the 1950s, Dearden and Relph branched out into independent production and became particularly associated with a cycle of controversial social problem films that included Sapphire (1959) and Victim (1961).This new study takes an extensive view of the cinema of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph. It considers in detail their contribution to the celebrated achievements of wartime cinema at ; Ealing, brings a new focus to their post-war films that addressed masculine adjustment in a period of rapid change, takes a fresh look at the prominent group of social problem films within their work, and offers an original study of their later period of filmmaking for the international market in the 1960s. Attention is also given to the significant place of comedy in their cinema and Michael Relph's considerable achievements as an art director. The book will be of interest to all students of film history and a general readership that takes a keen interest in British cinema.