Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A 1950s timeline -- Celebrating British cinema of the 1950s ian mackillop and neil sinyard -- Critics -- Raymond Durgnat and A Mirror for England robert murphy -- Lindsay Anderson: Sequence and the rise of auteurism in 1950s Britain erik hedling -- Mirroring England -- National snapshots: fixing the past in English war films fred inglis -- Film and the Festival of Britain sarah easen -- The national health: Pat Jackson's White Corridors charles barr -- The long shadow: Robert Hamer after Ealing philip kemp -- 'If they want culture, they pay': consumerism and alienation in 1950s comedies dave rolinson -- Boys, ballet and begonias: The Spanish Gardener and its analogues alison platt -- Intimate stranger: the early British films of Joseph Losey neil sinyard -- Painfully squalid? -- Women of Twilight kerry kidd -- Yield to the Night melanie williams -- From script to screen: Serious Charge and film censorship tony aldgate -- Housewife's choice: Woman in a Dressing Gown melanie williams -- Adaptibility -- Too theatrical by half? The Admirable Crichton and Look Back in Anger stephen lacey -- A Tale of Two Cities and the Cold War robert giddings -- Value for money: Baker and Berman, and Tempean Films brian mcfarlane -- Adaptable Terence Rattigan: Separate Tables, separate entities? dominic shellard -- Personal views -- Archiving the 1950s bryony dixon -- Being a film reviewer in the 1950s isabel quigly -- Michael Redgrave and The Mountebank's Tale corin redgrave -- Index.