TY - BOOK ID - 7835579 TI - British cinema of the 1950s : a celebration AU - MacKillop, I. D. AU - Sinyard, Neil. PY - 2003 SN - 0719064880 9786610734467 1847790305 1280734469 141757643X 9780719064890 9781417576432 0719064899 9780719064883 0719064899 9781847790309 9781280734465 6610734461 1526137275 PB - Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. by Palgrave, DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures - Great Britain - History. KW - Motion pictures KW - Music, Dance, Drama & Film KW - Film KW - History KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7835579 AB - Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history. Covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women's pictures and theatrical adaptations; as well as social issues which affect film-making, such as censorship. Includes fresh assessment of maverick directors; Pat Jackson, Robert Hamer and Joseph Losey, and even of a maverick critic Raymond Durgnat. Features personal insights from those individually implicated in 1950's cinema; Corin Redgrave on Michael Redgrave, Isabel Quigly on film reviewing, and Bryony Dixon of the BFI on archiving and preservation. Presents a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about 1950's film and rediscovers the Festival of Britain decade. ER -