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 filmmakers and cinema audiences. Harper and Porter explore the effects of social, cultural, and economic change on the 1950s film industry in Britain, looking in particular at the impact of the rise of television, successive changes in government policy, and the collapse of the studio system.
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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
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Sue Harper is a Professor of Film History, University of Portsmouth. Vincent Porter is a Professor of Mass Communications and Director of the Research Centre, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster.
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colonial war films, circuit release, cinema circuits, entertainments duty, film trade, distribution guarantee, dollar drain Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Lion, Board of Trade, Warner Bros, Independent Producers, The Politics of Production Finance, John Davis, Ealing Studios, The Rank Organisation, Lee Thompson, Associated British Picture Corporation, American-British Productions, Free Cinema, John Mills, Jack Hawkins, The Blue Lamp, The Cinema Audience Responds, Hammer Films, Second World War, Dirk Bogarde, Alec Guinness, Earl St John, Robert Clark, Kinematograph Weekly, Home Office, The Man Browse Sample Pages:
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colonial war films, circuit release, cinema circuits, entertainments duty, film trade, distribution guarantee, dollar drain Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Lion, Board of Trade, Warner Bros, Independent Producers, The Politics of Production Finance, John Davis, Ealing Studios, The Rank Organisation, Lee Thompson, Associated British Picture Corporation, American-British Productions, Free Cinema, John Mills, Jack Hawkins, The Blue Lamp, The Cinema Audience Responds, Hammer Films, Second World War, Dirk Bogarde, Alec Guinness, Earl St John, Robert Clark, Kinematograph Weekly, Home Office, The Man Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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