Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 745 g
The Decline of Deference
Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 745 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-815935-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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 film-makers and cinema audiences. Competition from television and successive changes in government policy all forced the production industry to become more market-sensitive. The films produced by Rank and Ealing, many of which harked back to wartime structures of feeling, were challenged by those backed by Anglo-Amalgamated and Hammer. The latter knew how to address the rebellious feelings and growing sexual discontents of a new generation of consumers. Even the British Board of Film Censors had to adopt a more liberal attitude. The collapse of the studio system also meant that the screenwriters and the art directors had to cede creative control to a new generation of independent producers and film directors. Harper and Porter explore the effects of these social, cultural, industrial, and economic changes on 1950s British cinema.
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- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Filmindustrie
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction
- 1: The Politics of Production Finance
- 2: The Rank Organisation
- 3: Ealing Studios
- 4: The Associated British Picture Company
- 5: British Lion
- 6: American-British Productions
- 7: Hammer Films
- 8: Independent Producers
- 9: Outsiders and Mavericks
- 10: Visual Style
- 11: Censorship
- 12: The Cinema Audience Responds
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes and references
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
