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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818001503321

Autore

Holmes Susan

Titolo

British film and television culture of the 1950s : coming to a TV near you! / / Susan Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Oregon, : Intellect Books, c2005

ISBN

1-280-47701-6

9786610477012

1-84150-921-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

791.430941

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Great Britain

Television broadcasting - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references.

Nota di contenuto

Publication Details; Contents Page; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One Broadcasting It: Approaching the Historical Relations between Cinema and Television; Chapter Two The Cinema Programme Begins: Developing Film ' Specially For Television Purposes and Technique'; Chapter Three Current Release: Text and Audience; Chapter Four The Cinema Programme in the Age of Competition: Picture Parafe; Chapter Five 'As They Really Are, and in Close Up': Film Stars on 1950's Television

Chapter Six Glamour, Show business and Movies-in-the-Making: The Film Premiere and 'Behind-the-Scenes'Chapter Seven Looking at the Wider Picture on the Small Screen: Reconsidering Television, Widescreen and the 'X' Certificate in the 1950's; Chapter Eight 'Picture Parade in Long Trousers': Maturity and Change in the Cinema Programe; Bibliography of Sources

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950's. Drawing upon archival research, it does this by exploring the development of the early cinema programme on television - principally Current Release (BBC, 1952-3), Picture Parade (BBC, 1956) and Film Fanfare (ABC, 1956-7) - and argues that it was these texts which played the central role in the



developing relations between the media. Particularly when it comes to Britain, the early co-existence of television and cinema has been seen as hostile and antagonistic, but in situating these