Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction
- PART ONE STARS AND STARDOM
- 1 Male Stardom in 1960s British Cinema
- 2 ‘Rebel Rebel’?: Oliver Reed in the 1960s
- 3 Carol White: The Bardot of Battersea
- 4 ‘The Old Wave at Work’: The Transatlantic Stardom of the British Character Actress in the 1960s
- PART TWO CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS
- 5 Woodery-pokery: Charles Wood’s Sixties Screenwriting
- 6 ‘Beyond Naturalism’: Jocelyn Herbert, If . . . (1968) and Design for Performance in 1960s British Cinema
- 7 Kes: From Page to Screen
- 8 ‘I’d like to remember you as you are – as just a grumpy old man’: Joseph Losey and the Making of Figures in a Landscape (1970)
- PART THREE STYLE AND GENRE
- 9 ‘Wholesome rough stuff’: Hammer Films and the ‘A’ and ‘U’ Certificate, 1959–65
- 10 Widescreen Pyrotechnics: Shot Composition and Staging in the Cold War Films of Joseph Losey and Sidney J. Furie
- 11 The Rise and Fall of the Colourful Corporate Fantasy in 1960s British Cinema
- 12 Witchfinders and Sorcerers: Sorcery and Counterculture in the Work of Michael Reeves
- PART FOUR CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS
- 13 ‘An Impulse of Anger, Instantly Regretted’: Rebellion and Reaction in the Early-1960s Naval Film
- 14 Narratives of Race and Identity in Sixties British Cinema
- 15 Panic at the Disco: Brainwashing, Alienation and the Discotheque in Swinging London Films
- Index
Notes on the Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2020
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction
- PART ONE STARS AND STARDOM
- 1 Male Stardom in 1960s British Cinema
- 2 ‘Rebel Rebel’?: Oliver Reed in the 1960s
- 3 Carol White: The Bardot of Battersea
- 4 ‘The Old Wave at Work’: The Transatlantic Stardom of the British Character Actress in the 1960s
- PART TWO CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS
- 5 Woodery-pokery: Charles Wood’s Sixties Screenwriting
- 6 ‘Beyond Naturalism’: Jocelyn Herbert, If . . . (1968) and Design for Performance in 1960s British Cinema
- 7 Kes: From Page to Screen
- 8 ‘I’d like to remember you as you are – as just a grumpy old man’: Joseph Losey and the Making of Figures in a Landscape (1970)
- PART THREE STYLE AND GENRE
- 9 ‘Wholesome rough stuff’: Hammer Films and the ‘A’ and ‘U’ Certificate, 1959–65
- 10 Widescreen Pyrotechnics: Shot Composition and Staging in the Cold War Films of Joseph Losey and Sidney J. Furie
- 11 The Rise and Fall of the Colourful Corporate Fantasy in 1960s British Cinema
- 12 Witchfinders and Sorcerers: Sorcery and Counterculture in the Work of Michael Reeves
- PART FOUR CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS
- 13 ‘An Impulse of Anger, Instantly Regretted’: Rebellion and Reaction in the Early-1960s Naval Film
- 14 Narratives of Race and Identity in Sixties British Cinema
- 15 Panic at the Disco: Brainwashing, Alienation and the Discotheque in Swinging London Films
- Index
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- Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered , pp. ix - xivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020