Rescued by Rover (1905)

Sight and Sound review, Vol. 14, No. 11, Nov 2004, p60 quoted in Film Eye, No. 4, 2004, p4.

See Kevin MacDonald and Mark Cousins Mark, Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary. London, Faber and Faber, 1998.

In an interview with David Thompson in Sight and Sound he claims British films of the 1960s as influences. ('Another England', Sight and Sound, Vol. 14 No. 10, October 2004)

Natalie Press returned to art-house film in Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006). Emily Blunt has taken a more mainstream route in The Devil Wore Prada (David Frankel, 2006).

Reviewer Andrew Wright commented that the ‘alternately homely and Valkyrie gorgeous’ Press seems ‘herself unsure of what exactly her character is capable of’. (www.thestranger.com/seattle/content?oid=21465 - accessed 5 April 2007)

Further Reading

Samantha Lay, British Social Realism: From Documentary To Brit Grit. London, Wallflower, 2002.

Lynda Townsend

1930s

economic depression 60

1960s

changing attitudes 170

counter-culture 215

generation gap 181

London 211

race riots 195

student protests 191, 195

'Swinging Sixties' 224

'the Chelsea set' 212

1968 Paris riots 191

A Man From the Sun (1956) 133

A Matter of Life and Death (1947) 134

A Queen Is Crowned (1953) 124

Adam, Ken 189

Allen, Jim 304

American investment 215

anarchy 193

Anderson, Lindsay 165, 166

Every Day Except Christmas 195

Archers, The 74

Arden, John

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance 193

Aristotle 105

Arlington Road (1998) 52

Armes, Roy 167

Atlee, Clem 106

audience

expectations of 304

auteurism 166, 192, 310, 334

avant-garde practice 245

Balcon, Michael 110, 125, 126

Barthes, Roland

photographic image 155

Battle of the Somme (1916) 22

Beatles, The 178

Bely, Andrei 19

Bergson, Henri 110

betrayal 116

biographical film 24

Birth of a Nation (1915) 23

Blackpool 288

Blade Runner (1982) 54

Blairite policies 321

Blue Velvet (1986) 263

Bourne Identity, The (2002) 52

Box, Sydney 97

Brambell, Wilfred 180

Brecht, Bertolt 194

Mother Courage and Her Children 193

'alienation effect' 193, 196, 260, 262

Brighton Rock (1947) 144

British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) 217

introduction of 'X' certificate 146

British Documentary Movement 41

British Empire 171, 201

independence 202

British Film Institute (BFI) 141, 297

British Lion 232

British New Wave 140, 164, 165, 167, 192, 321

self-interest in 169

visual style 169

Cannes Film Festival 309, 329

Critics' Prize 1946 87

capitalism 252

carnivalesque escape 105

Carry On series 198

Casablanca (1942) 306

Cathy Come Home (1966) 206, 251

censorship 60, 65, 73, 77

Chariots of Fire (1981) 295

Children of Men (2006) 221

Chris Barber Jazz Band 141

Cinemascope 161

class 38, 192, 201, 202, 291

class divisions 122, 144

middle class identity 87

public school 190

representation of the working class 63, 145, 204, 295

upper-class stoicism 201

Cohen, Stanley

moral panics 143

Cold War 116, 120

colonialism 240

comedy

comic-timing 318

'the knowledgeable fool' 200

composed shot 101

consumer culture 148

consumer society 257

Corman, Roger 233

crime 115

Crown Film Unit 46, 69

Cuban Missile Crisis 196

cult fans 234

cult films 236

cultural capital 49

cultural identity

British Asian 285

Czech New Wave 207

dance in film 37

Dankworth, Johnny 141

Davies, Terence 323

death 325

Devil Wore Prada, The (2006) 341

disguise and masquerade 264

Doctor in the House series 134

documentary 139

poetic approach to 66

realism 83, 126, 166, 226

social role 45

US documentary filmmakers 142

Douglas, Bill 323

Dumb Sagacity (1907) 18

Ealing comedy 125, 255

Ealing Studios 130

early film

as 'cinema of attractions' 15

as 'primitive' 15

dogs in 17

venues 16

Eco, Umberto 186

Edinburgh Film Festival 251, 323

Education Act (1944) 206

Eisenstein, Sergei 25

endings, disputed 117

Enemy of the State (1997) 52

English Romanticism 299

European cinema 35

family 329

fantasy 19, 90, 326

fantasy and realism 195

Fashion

Christian Dior 100

Jean-Paul Gaultier 260

female identity

Hitchcock constructions 31

transgression 93

upper class 82

working class 81

female vamp 37

film noir 114

Financial Times 233

First World War 171

Fitzhamon, Lewin 18

Flaherty, Robert 42

Flame in the Street (1961) 135

flâneur 301

Flashdance (1983) 321

Fleming, Ian 184

Fox, James 212

Frazer, J.G.

Golden Bough, The 231

Free Cinema 141, 145, 165, 192

Freud, Sigmund

psychoanalysis 28

'the uncanny' 157

Frye, Northrop 110

Gainsborough Studios 92

Galbraith, J. K.

'the culture of contentment' 258

Gambon, Michael 262

gaze

active, investigative 154

voyeuristic 155

white male 287

gender

crisis of masculinity 274, 320

female vamp 39, 78

misogyny 168, 187

post-war women 109

representation of men 319, 325, 331

representation of men in the workplace 147

representation of women 62, 99, 122, 149, 167, 168, 227, 228, 249, 273, 319

the femme fatale woman 266

the male hero 167, 168, 227

General Post Office Film Unit 46

generational conflict 253

genre 121, 231

comedy 317

costume drama 292

fantasy/realism 338

gangster 229

ghost story 159

heritage 277

horror 152, 159, 230

melodrama 63, 99, 103, 254, 289, 320

science fiction 56

slasher 153

spy thriller 185

suspense thriller 28

thriller 48, 52, 114

German expressionism 28, 114

Geronimo 191

Gibbs, Christopher 212

Goons, The 178

Gothic style 128

Great Expectations (1946) 255

Green, Janet 137

Greenaway, Peter

A Zed and Two Noughts (1985) 260

Drowning By Numbers (1988) 260

Grierson, John 142

Guevara, Che 191

Guns at Batasi (1964) 137

Hals, Frans 260

Harper, Sue 103

Hearts of the World (1918) 22

Hebdige, Dick 144, 247, 248

Hedd Wynn (1992) 271

Heller, Otto 128

Hepworth, Cecil 18

high art and popular culture 48

Higson, Andrew 169

Hill, John 167

Hoggart, Richard 139

Hollywood

blockbuster 185

in relation to British cinema 35

production values 189

rejection of 258

Ideal Film Company 22

illusion of reality 193

industrialisation 70

intermediality 15

interventionist cinema 209

Intolerance (1916) 25

Irish Republican Army (IRA) 265, 298

Italian Neo-Realists 165

James, Henry

The Turn of the Screw (1898) 158

Jarman, Derek 245, 280

Jennings, Humphrey 142, 165

Spare Time (1939) 227

Kerr, Deborah 163

Kismet Films 328

kitchen sink drama 146

Kitchen Sink Painters 139

Korda, Alexander 55

Korda, Vincent 56

Korean War 174, 175

Kusturica, Emir 339

Kwietniowski, Richard

Flames of Passion (1990) 89

Labour government of 1945 126

election victory 106

Laine, Cleo 141

Last Laugh, The (1924) 37

Last Resort (2000) 339

Lee, Christopher 231

Lenczewski, Rysard 338

Lieberson, Sanford 212

Loach, Ken 339

approach to filmmaking 303, 307, 308

Locatelli, Giorgio 260

London 29, 225, 238, 330

London Film Festival 205, 270

Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The (1962) 192, 196

Low, Sidney 27

Mackendrick, Alexander 127

Madonna of the Seven Moons (1943) 97

Man of Aran (1934) 42

Mare Nostrum (1925) 100

Marker, Chris

La Jetee (1962) 297

Mazzola, Frank 214

McGill, Donald 198

Melies, Georges 19

Merchant Ivory 290, 291

Metropolis (1926) 56

Miller, Glenn 78

Milwr Bychan/Welsh Soldier (1986) 271

Miners Strike (1984-5) 272

mining industry 206

Ministry of Information 80

Mirren, Helen 263

montage 313

Soviet influence 44

Morris, William 309

MTV 183

multiculturalism 256

Murphy, Robert 168

Nadsat 220

Nanook of the North (1922) 42

narrative

alternative approaches 245

cyclical structure 115, 176

dominant form of 244

rescue narrative 17

the 'coming of age' story 239

use of flashback 73

'feel-good' happy ending 316

National Film Theatre 140, 165

National Front 252

national identity 109, 126

and the British Empire 133, 137

Anglo-centrality 136

British subcultures 247

British values 173

Britishness 86, 176, 192, 219

Englishness 68, 74, 75, 108, 290

filmic 113

representations of Britain 51

representations of the US 294

stereotypes 114

National Service 144

Newcastle-upon-Tyne 224

Night Mail (1936) 45

Nitschze, Jack 214

North by Northwest (1959) 52

Northwest Frontier (1958) 199

nostalgia 91

O'Pray, Michael 246

O'Toole, Peter 171

Orwell, George 252

Homage to Catalonia 308

Osborne, John

Look Back in Anger 146, 165, 166

The Entertainer 166

pagan rites 234

Pallenberg, Anita 212

patriarchy 32, 102

patriotism 119

Paxman, Jeremy 86

performance

as masquerade 116

mimetic acting codes 101

personal identity 50, 174, 336

Pinner, David

Ritual (1967) 231

political caricature in film 25

political protest 242, 254

Pool of London (1950) 135

popular Indian cinema (Bollywood) 284

post-war Britain 129

post-war consumer society 107

postmodernism 49

Private Life of Henry VIII, The (1933) 55

Production Code 96, 146

Psycho (1960) 28

punk 246, 248

Punk Rock Movie (1978) 247

race

African-Caribbean 131

and conflict 38

discrimination 133

inter-racial relationships 286

Kelso Cochrane 133

Notting Hill riots 132

racial 'passing' 136

racism 137

representation of 'the Arab' 173

representation of Asian women 284

representations of black youth 238

representations of the Asian community 253

Seymour Manning 132

stereotypes 76

West Indians 135

white working class 143

racial identity

and 'black blackface' performance 36

and Anna May Wong 36

realism 311

anti-realism 259

hyper-realism 332

non-realist effects 25

Red Road (2006) 341

reggae music 238

Reisz, Karel 165

Relph, Michael 137

representation of the working class 144, 165

revenge 229

Richardson, Tony

as theatre director 165

Riefenstahl, Leni

Triumph of the Will (1935) 71

Rock Around the Clock (1956) 141

Roeg, Nicolas

Don't Look Now (1973) 232

Room at the Top (1959) 158, 166

Rose, William 127

Rossellini, Roberto 166

Rotha, Paul 42

Rouch, Jean 142

Russell, Ken 246

Russia

post-communist 270

S4C (Welsh Channel Four) 271

satire 105, 257

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) 142, 166

Schwarzenegger, Arnold 189

Second World War 67, 80, 91, 99

conscription of women 80

nostalgia for 108, 118

post-war issues 114

post-war propaganda 119

wartime propaganda 64, 65, 81

serial killer

Jack the Ripper 28

sexual politics 187

sexuality 265

homosexuality 89, 251, 265, 275

male rape 175

sexual difference 279

sexual frankness 96

sexual liberation 216

Sgrin

Media Agency for Wales 271

Shakespeare, William

Titus Andronicus 263

Shape of Things to Come, The (1933) 54

Shelley, Percy

The Mask of Anarchy 191

Shenson, Walter 179

Shepperton Studios 232

Sight and Sound 141

Simba (1955) 134

skiffle 141

social commentary 38, 105, 132, 317, 327

social realism 63, 165, 205

socialism 62

sound

introduction of 29

Spanish Civil War 305

General Franco 305

the Popular Front 306

spectacle 189

spectatorship 94

masochism and sadism 95

Spiceworld - The Movie (1997) 183

Star Trek (1966-69) 59

subcultures

droogs 220

Teddy Boys 142, 220

suburbia 90

Sunday Telegraph 233

supernatural 24

Surrealism 67, 300

Suschitzky, Wolfgang 224

Swinton, Tilda 279

Technicolor 101

technology

as progress 57

Thatcher, Margaret 252, 272

Thatcherism 258, 320

the North 225

theatricality and performance 278

transnational cinema 221

transnationality 113

Truffaut, Francois 163

Four Hundred Blows (1959) 321

'A Certain Tendency in French Cinema' (1954) 296

United Artists 204

Varietie (1925) 37

Vertigo (1958) 28

Victorian values 255

Vietnam War 174, 175

Vigo, Jean

Zero de Conduite (1933) 196

Wales

Film and Television Archive 22

Welsh identity 271

Welsh language 270

war

and violence 176

anti-war message 173

attitudes to war parodied 200

nature of 119

War Game, The (1965) 206

Warner Brothers 214, 221

welfare state 139

widescreen 172

Williams, Raymond 139

Wind in the Willows (1908) 19

Windrush generation (1948) 238

Woodfall Film Productions 166

Woolf, Virginia

Orlando - A Biography (1928) 278

Wymer, Rowland 249, 250

Young, Freddie 172

youth culture 215

Zulu (1964) 137, 199

'Angry Young Men' 139, 146

'Colonel Blimp'

cartoon character 75