Covering a variety of genres, such as war films and women's pictures, as well as social issues which affect film-making, this is a re-evaluation of what has unt

This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s. Drawing upon archival research, it does this by

In this history of 1950s British cinema, the authors draw extensively on previously unknown archive material to chart the growing rejection of post-war deferenc

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now

For the last sixty years discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by claims that the genre reflected US paranoia about Soviet brainwashing