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

Sue Harper; Justin Smith

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2011

British Film Culture in the 1970s

The Boundaries of Pleasure

Sue Harper and Justin Smith

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748654260

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About this book

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Sue Harper and Justin Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I
CHAPTER 1 Government Aid and Film Legislation: ‘An elastoplast to stop a haemorrhage’ Sian Barber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
CHAPTER 2 British Film Censorship and the BBFC in the 1970s Sian Barber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
CHAPTER 3 Moving Images and the Visual Arts in 1970s Britain Dave Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
CHAPTER 4 British Film Design in the 1970s Laurie N. Ede Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
CHAPTER 5 Film Education during the 1970s Vincent Porter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
CHAPTER 6 ‘Picking up the Tab’ for the Whole Black Community?: Industrial, Social and Institutional Challenges as Exemplifi ed in Babylon (1980) Sally Shaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
CHAPTER 7 1970s Television: A Self- conscious Decade Laurel Forster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
CHAPTER 8 British Graffi ti: Popular Music and Film in the 1970s Dave Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Part II
CHAPTER 9 Key Players Sue Harper and Justin Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
CHAPTER 10 Boundaries and Taboos Sue Harper and Justin Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
CHAPTER 11 Technology and Visual Style Sue Harper and Justin Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
CHAPTER 12 Social Space Sue Harper and Justin Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
CHAPTER 13 Cross- over Sue Harper and Justin Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
CHAPTER 14 Audiences and Reception Sue Harper and Justin Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Conclusion Sue Harper and Justin Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Endnotes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
APPENDIX I Cinema Statistics, Box Office and Related Data Justin Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
APPENDIX II Cinema- going at the Southampton Odeon: Exhibition Data and Popular Taste Sian Barber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
APPENDIX III Top Films Shown at Portsmouth Cinemas, 1970–1979 Peri Bradley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 8 B/W tables 20 B/W halftones 20 film stills
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: November 30, 2011
ISBN: 9780748654260