Number of Items in Your Basket
Basket Total
BFI Filmstore  >   Books & Magazines >  British & Irish Film & TV  > Sixties British Cinema
Information
 Home
 Latest BFI Products
 Best Sellers
 Offers & Promotions
 BFI Member Discounts
 Visit the Filmstore
 Filmstore Events
 Certification
Products
Contact Us
Tel: 020 7815 135
Accepted Cards: Visa Mastercard Amex Maestro Delta Solo Electron
Sixties British Cinema

31-Mar-92
354 pages
Published/distributed by BFI Publishing
ISBN/EAN: 9780851703244
Paperback
Price: £19.99
<back
Sixties British Cinema 
Murphy, Robert
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 vitlity: 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 which reflect the cultural changes of the decade. Now that our cinematic past is constantly recycled on television, Murphy's infomative, engaging and perceptive review of these films and their cultural and industrial context offers an invaluable guide to this neglected era of British cinema.
0