LEADER 02882 am 22004813u 450 001 996552355403316 005 20230621140743.0 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526137272 035 $a(CKB)4100000006999941 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33351 035 $a(DE-B1597)659189 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526137272 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006999941 100 $a20181014h20182003 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aBritish cinema of the 1950s $ea celebration /$fedited by Ian MacKillop and Neil Sinyard 210 $cManchester University Press$d2003 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 311 $a0-7190-6489-9 311 $a1-5261-3727-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThis book offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British cinema. Twenty writers contribute essays that rediscover and reassess the productions of the Festival of Britain decade, during which the vitality of wartime film-making flowed into new forms. Topics covered include genres such as the B-film, the war film, the woman's picture, the theatrical adaptation and comedy; also social issues such as censorship and the screen representation of childhood. The book includes fresh assessments of maverick directors such as Pat Jackson, Robert Hamer and Joseph Losey, and even of a maverick critic, Raymond Durgnat. There are also three personal views from people individually implicated in 1950s cinema: Corin Redgrave on Michael Redgrave, Isabel Quigly on film reviewing, and Bryony Dixon of the British Film Institute on film archiving and preservation. In its evocation and coverage of a fascinating time when the national cinema enjoyed an unprecedented popularity amongst home audiences, this volume offers the most exhilarating survey yet of 1950s British film. In its provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about this decade's movies, the book will prove indispensable to students of the cinema at all levels and a stimulating companion for the critic and the historian. 606 $aMotion pictures$zGreat Britain$xHistory 610 $acinema 610 $afilm 610 $abritish 610 $aCinema of the United Kingdom 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 676 $a791.43094109045 700 $aSinyard$b Neil$4auth$0800980 702 $aMacKillop$b I. D$g(Ian Duncan) 702 $aSinyard$b Neil 801 0$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996552355403316 996 $aBritish cinema of the 1950s$93570831 997 $aUNISA