British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure by Harper, Sue

British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780748681693)

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British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure by Harper, Sue

British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure

$37.95
British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure by Harper, Sue

British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure

$37.95
Format: Paperback
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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.This book is the culmination of an AHRC-funded project at the University of Portsmouth, For more information about '1970s British Cinema, Film and Video: Mainstream and Counter-Culture' (2006-2009) please visit the project website at www.1970sproject.co.uk.

Author: Sue Harper, Justin Smith
ISBN-10: 0748681698
ISBN-13: 9780748681693
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2013
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

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Sue Harper is Emeritus Professor of Film History at the University of Portsmouth. She is a cultural historian who has written widely on British cinema, and made numerous appearances on radio and television. She was the Principal Investigator on the 1970s AHRC-funded project, '1970s British Cinema, Film and Video: Mainstream and Counter-Culture' (2006-2009).

Justin Smith is Reader in British Film Culture at the University of Portsmouth where he is also Post-Graduate Tutor in the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media. He is the author of Withnail and Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2010) and, with Sue Harper, British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). He was a Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project 1970s British Cinema, Film and Video: Mainstream and Counter-Culture (2006-2009), www.1970sproject.co.uk; he is currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project 'Channel 4 Television and British Film Culture' (2010-2014), www.c4film.co.uk . A cultural historian with a special interest in British cinema, his research interests embrace production, reception and exhibition practices, film fandom, and issues of cultural identity and popular memory.

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