| Launder and Gilliat Contributor(s): Babington, Bruce (Author), McFarlane, Brian (Editor), Sinyard, Neil (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0719056683 ISBN-13: 9780719056680 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2013 Annotation: Launder and Gilliat formed one of the central partnerships in British film history as screenwriters of Hitchcock and Carol Reed films and auteurs in their own right. Bruce Babington's study of the pair is notable for its contextualizing within English and British culture over four decades, including British Cinema's 'golden age' of the war and post-war years, and its close reading of films that have been critically neglected, despite their popularity. From "Waterloo Road" to "The Happiest Days of Your Life," their films registered the 'ideological climate' of wartime and post-war Britain in engaging and creative ways. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Individual Director |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2001059067 |
| Series: British Film-Makers |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.26" W x 7.86" (0.61 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bruce Babington analyses the achievement of one of the central partnerships in British film history, the screenwriters of famous films by Hitchcock and Carol Reed, who became the producer-writer-directors of a succession of famous and well-loved films including Millions Like Us, Two Thousand Women, Waterloo Road, The Rake's Progress, I See a Dark Stranger, The Blue Lagoon and The Happiest Days of Your Life. This study of the pair is notable both for its contextualising of them within English and British culture over four decades, including British cinema's 'golden age' of the war and immediate post-war years, and for its close reading of films that have been critically neglected, despite their popularity. Scholarly but not pedantic, the book shows its subjects to be not ordinary mainstream practitioners but deceptively serious filmmakers registering the 'ideological weather' of wartime and post-war Britain in engaging and creative ways. |