Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered

Duncan Petrie is Professor of Film at the University of York. His publications include Creativity and Constraint in the British Film Industry (1991), The British Cinematographer (1996), Screening Scotland (2000), Contemporary Scottish Fictions (2004), Shot in New Zealand (2007) and Educating Film-Makers (2014). Melanie Williams is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. Her publications include the monographs David Lean (2014) and Female Stars of British Cinema (2017) and the co-edited collections British Women’s Cinema (2009) and Ealing Revisited (2012). Laura Mayne is a Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Hull

• Introduction; Duncan Petrie and Melanie WilliamsPART ONE: STARS AND STARDOMMale Stardom in 1960s British Cinema; Andrew Spicer‘Rebel Rebel’?: Oliver Reed in the 1960s; Caroline LanghorstCarol White: The Bardot of Battersea; Margherita Sprio‘The Old Wave at Work’: The Transatlantic Stardom of the British Character Actress in the 1960s; Claire MortimerPART TWO: CREATIVE COLLABORATIONWoodery-pokery: Charles Wood’s Sixties Screenwriting; David Cairns‘Beyond Naturalism’: Jocelyn Herbert, If ….(1968) and design for performance in 1960s British cinema; Vicky LoweKes: from page to screen; David Forrest and Sue Vice‘I’d like to remember you as you are – as just a grumpy old man’: Joseph Losey and Figures in a Landscape (1970); Llewella ChapmanPART THREE: STYLE AND GENRE‘Wholesome rough stuff’: Hammer Films and the ‘A’ and ‘U’ Certificate, 1959-65; Paul FrithWidescreen Pyrotechnics: Shot Composition and Staging in the Cold War Films of Joseph Losey and Sidney J. Furie; Steven RobertsThe Rise and Fall of the Colourful Corporate Fantasy in 1960s British Cinema; Carolyn RickardsWitchfinders and Sorcerers: Sorcery and counterculture in the work of Michael Reeves; Virginie SélavyPART FOUR: CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS‘An Impulse of Anger, Instantly Regretted’: Rebellion and Reaction in the early 1960s Naval Film; Mark FryersNarratives of Race and Identity in Sixties British Cinema; Phillip DrummondPanic at the Disco: Brainwashing, Alienation, and the Discothèque in Swinging London films; Sophia Satchell-Baeza

From Carol White to Edith Evans, psychedelia to social grimness, fantasy to finance, this admirable collection captures the novelties and continuities of the 1960s. Contributors draw on archival sources to provide rewarding accounts which open up one of the most productive decades of British cinema to new and valuable scrutiny.