Sixties British Cinema - Robert Murphy

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Résumé :
British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy's Sixties British Cinema is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late 50s and early 60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confidence and vitality: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, and A Taste of Honey are only the better known titles. Sixties British Cinema revalues key genres of the period - horror, crime and comedy - and takes a fresh look at the 'swinging London' films, finding disturbing undertones that reflect the cultural changes of the decade. Now that our cinematic past is constantly recycled on television, Murphy's informative, engaging and perceptive review of these films and their cultural and industrial context offers an invaluable guide to this neglected era of British cinema....

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Robert Murphy...

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. A Savage Story of Lust and Ambition
2. 80,000 Problems
3. Critical Debates
4. Art and Commerce
5. When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
6. Brave New World
7. Swinging London
8. Other Worlds
9. Exploring the Underworld
10. Frying Tonight
11. Hollywood' England
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX: A Guide to the 1960s in Britain
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX