Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered - by Duncan Petrie & Melanie Williams & Laura Mayne (Paperback)

About the Book

Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution of production personnel beyond the director, and discusses how cultural change is reflected in both film style and cinematic themes.

Book Synopsis

This collection of exciting new research on British cinema of the 1960s reconsiders and reframes the film culture that emerged from that tumultuous decade. Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution of production personnel beyond the director, and discusses how cultural change is reflected in both film style and cinematic themes.
With perspectives and insights from established scholars and new critical voices, Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered draws on under-explored archival resources to explore four key research areas: stars and stardom; creative collaborations in filmmaking; developments in genre and film style; and how the cinema of the period both responded and contributed to social and cultural transformation in the 1960s.

From the Back Cover

'From Carol White to Edith Evans, psychedelia to social grimness, fantasy to finance, this admirable collection captures the novelties and continuities of the 1960s. Contributors draw on archival sources to provide rewarding accounts which open up one of the most productive decades of British cinema to new and valuable scrutiny.' Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow This collection of exciting new research on British cinema of the 1960s reconsiders and reframes the film culture that emerged from that tumultuous decade. Offering perspectives and insights from established scholars and new critical voices, Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered challenges assumptions about the decade's cinema and draws on under-explored archival resources. Its chapters survey four key research areas: stars and stardom; creative collaborations in filmmaking, looking beyond the director; changes and developments in film style and genre; and how 1960s cinema both responded and contributed to the era's social and cultural transformations. Duncan Petrie is Professor of Film and Television at the University of York. Melanie Williams is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. Laura Mayne is a Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Hull. Cover image: Oliver Reed in I'll Never Forget What's'isname, Michael Winner 1967 (c) Regional Film Distributors/Photofest Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-4388-3 Barcode

About the Author

Duncan Petrie is Professor of Film at the University of York. His publications include Creativity and Constraint in the British Film Industry (1991), The British Cinematographer (1996), Screening Scotland (2000), Contemporary Scottish Fictions (2004), Shot in New Zealand (2007) and Educating Film-Makers (2014).

Melanie Williams is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. Her publications include the monographs David Lean (2014) and Female Stars of British Cinema (2017) and the co-edited collections British Women's Cinema (2009) and Ealing Revisited (2012).

Laura Mayne is a Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Hull