British film culture in the 1970s
Subtitle: the boundaries of pleasure
By: Sue Harper and Justin Smith with Dave Allen ... [et al.].
Contributors: Smith, Justin T.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780748640782
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture industry; Plots, themes; Nineteen seventies; History
Description: "This volume draws a map of British film culture in the 1970s and provides a wide-ranging history of the period. It examines the cross-cultural relationship between British cinema and other media, including popular music and television. The analysis covers mainstream and experimental film cultures, identifying their production contexts and the economic, legislative and censorship constraints on British cinema throughout the decade. The essays in Part I contextualise the study and illustrate the diversity of 1970s moving image culture. In Part II, Sue Harper and Justin Smith examine how gender relations and social space were addressed in film. They show how a shared visual manner and performance style characterises this fragmented cinema, and how irony and anxiety suffuse the whole film culture. This volume charts the shifting boundaries of permission in 1970s film culture and changes in audience taste." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.

Includes filmography (p. [302]-313).