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[ecrea] new book Don’t Look Now: British Cinema of the 1970s

Fri Apr 30 13:47:44 GMT 2010



New title announcement from Intellect...

Don’t Look Now: British Cinema of the 1970s
Edited by Paul Newland
ISBN 9781841503202 pb £19.95, $35

While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don’t Look Now uncovers forgotten but richly rewarding lms, including Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now and the lms of Lindsay Anderson and Barney Platts-Mills.

This volume offers insight into the careers of important lm-makers and sheds light on the genres of experimental lm, horror, and rock and punk lms, as well as representations of the black community, shifts in gender politics, and adaptations of television comedies. The contributors ask searching questions about the nature of British lm culture and its relationship to popular culture, television, and the cultural underground.

'The essays in this highly stimulating collection reveal, clearly and persuasively, just how diverse, energetic and imaginative British cinematic creativity was during this rather maligned decade... In shining a bright light into one of the remaining dark corners in British cinema history Don’t Look Now is a welcome and extremely valuable contribution to the field.' – Professor Duncan Petrie, University of York

'Long overdue for a closer look, this volume provides a comprehensive, wide-ranging and stimulating range of new scholarship on British cinema and television in the 1970s. ' – Professor Sarah Street, University of Bristol

ABOUT THE EDITOR
Paul Newland currently holds the post of Lecturer in Film Studies, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, Aberystwyth University. Previously he was Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of English, University of Exeter.

Further info and to order the book visit: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4699/

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