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

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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/

CHAPTERS

• Introduction: Don’t Look Now? British cinema in the 1970s
• Keynote Address, Don’t Look Now? Conference, University of Exeter, July 2007
• Stanley Baker and British Lion: a Cautionary Tale
• Staccato and wrenchingly modern: reflections on the 1970s stardom of Glenda Jackson
• Alternative Film Exhibition in the English Regions during the 1970s
• Multiple Voices: The Silent Cry and artists’ moving image in the 1970s
• On the Margins: Anthony Simmons, The Optimists of Nine Elms and Black Joy
• We know where we’re going, we know where we’re from: Babylon
• The Power to Create Catastrophe: The idea of apocalypse in 1970s British cinema
• ‘The "lack" and how to get it’: reading male anxiety in A Clockwork Orange, Tommy and The Man Who Fell to Earth
• Hideous Sexy: The Eroticised Body and Deformity in 1970s British Horror Films
• Masculinity and deviance in British cinema of the 1970s: Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll in The Wicker Man, Tommy and The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The last studio system: a case for British television films
• ‘Pre-Sold to Millions’: The Sitcom Films of the 1970s
• Class, Nostalgia and Newcastle: Contested Space in The Likely Lads
• Hovis, Ovaltine, Mackeson’s and the Days of Hope debate
• ‘What is there to smile at?’ Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man!
• Dead End and Private Roads: The 1970s films of Barney Platts-Mills
• Landscape in The Ruling Class
• Beneath the Surface: Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now

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