Cinema Memories

Melvyn Stokes is Professor of Film History at University College London, UK. He is the author and editor of books including Charlot: How the French Discovered, Wrote About, Defended and Resurrected Charlie Chaplin (Oxford University Press, 2018); Cinéma et mémoire dans le cinéma Anglophone/Memory in-of English-speaking Cinema, ed. (with Z. Saleh) (Michel Houdiard, 2014); American History through Hollywood Film (Bloomsbury, December 2013); Gilda (BFI Film Classics, 2010); Cinéma et histoire/Cinema and History, ed. (with G. Menegaldo) (Michel Houdiard, 2008); D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation”: A History of “the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time” (Oxford University Press, 2007); Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema, ed. (with R. Maltby and R. C. Allen) (University of Exeter Press, 2007); and Hollywood Abroad: Audiences and Cultural Exchange, ed. (with R. Maltby) (British Film Institute, 2004). Matthew Jones is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).Emma Pett is Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Experiencing Cinema: Participatory Film Culture, Immersive Cinema and the Experience Economy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).

• Introduction1. ‘This is where we came in’: cinema-going in the sixties2. Sex and the Cinema3. ‘The times they are a-changin’?: American Sixties Films 4. Reflecting ‘what life was like’?: British films of the 1960s 5. 'New Waves' from Europe6. Postcolonial Audiences7. Conclusion

This research is an excellent reminder of the importance of the cinema experience in that culturally significant decade … and it also serves to point out just how much has changed over the last fifty years … [The book] may provoke nostalgia in some older readers, whilst for younger readers it’s a fascinating window into an almost lost world.