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Don't Look Now : British Cinema in the 1970s.
Title:
Don't Look Now : British Cinema in the 1970s.
Author:
Newland, Paul.
ISBN:
9781841503899
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Don't Look Now -- Chapter 1: Keynote Lecture, Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s Conference, University of Exeter, July 2007 -- Section I: Individuals and the Industry -- Chapter 2: Stanley Baker and British Lion: A Cautionary Tale -- Chapter 3: Staccato and Wrenchingly Modern: Reflections on the 1970s Stardom of Glenda Jackson -- Section II: On the Margins of British Cinema -- Chapter 4: Alternative Film Exhibition in the English Regions during the 1970s -- Chapter 5: Multiple Voices: The Silent Cry and Artists' Moving Image in the 1970s -- Chapter 6: On the Margins: Anthony Simmons, The Optimists of Nine Elms and Black Joy -- Chapter 7: We Know Where We're Going, We Know Where We're From: Babylon -- Section III: Anxiety and Alienation, Deviance and Desire -- Chapter 8: The Power to Create Catastrophe: The Idea of Apocalypse in 1970s British Cinema -- Chapter 9: Hideous Sexy: The Eroticized Body and Deformity in 1970s British Horror Films -- Chapter 10: Masculinity and Deviance in British Cinema of the 1970s: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in The Wicker Man, Tommy and The Rocky Horror Picture Show -- Chapter 11: 'The "lack" and How to Get It': Reading Male Anxiety in A Clockwork Orange, Tommy and The Man Who Fell to Earth -- Section IV: British Cinema and Television -- Chapter 12: The Last Studio System: A Case for British Television Films -- Chapter 13: 'Pre-sold to Millions': The Sitcom Films of the 1970s -- Chapter 14: Class, Nostalgia and Newcastle: Contested Space in The Likely Lads -- Chapter 15: Hovis, Ovaltine, Mackeson's and the Days of Hope Debate -- Section V: British Films and British Filmmakers -- Chapter 16: 'What is there to Smile At?' Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man!.

Chapter 17: Dead Ends and Private Roads: The 1970s Films of Barney Platts-Mills -- Chapter 18: Landscape Gardens in The Ruling Class -- Chapter 19: Beneath the Surface: Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don't Look Now uncovers forgotten but richly rewarding ?lms, including Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now and the ?lms of Lindsay Anderson and Barney Platts-Mills. This volume offers insight into the careers of important ?lm-makers and sheds light on the genres of experimental ?lm, horror, and rock and punk ?lms, as well as representations of the black community, shifts in gender politics, and adaptations of television comedies. The contributors ask searching questions about the nature of British ?lm culture and its relationship to popular culture, television, and the cultural underground.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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