Originally published: 2012. Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Government aid and film legislation: 'An elastoplast to stop a haemorrhage' / Sian Barber -- British film censorship and the BBFC in the 1970s / Sian Barber -- Moving images and the visual arts in 1970s Britain / Dave Allen -- British film design in the 1970s / Laurie N. Ede -- Film education during the 1970s / Vincent Porter -- 'Picking up the tab' for the whole black community?: industrial, social and institutional challenges as exemplified in Babylon / Sally Shaw -- 1970s television: a self-conscious decade / Laurel Forster -- British graffiti: popular music and film in the 1970s / Dave Allen -- Key players; Boundaries and taboos; Technology and visual style; Social space; Cross-over; Audiences and reception / Sue Harper and Justin Smith.
Summary:
"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.
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