Soho on Screen

Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963

von Jingan Young

262 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Despite Soho's rich cultural history, there remains an absence of work on the depiction of the popular neighbourhood in film. Soho on Screen provides one of the first studies of Soho within postwar British cinema. Drawing upon historical, cultural and urban studies of the area, this book explores twelve films and theatrically released documentaries from a filmography of over one hundred Soho set productions. While predominantly focusing on low-budget, exploitation films which are exemplars of British and international filmmaking, Young also offers new readings of star and director biographies, from Laurence Harvey to Emeric Pressburger, and in so doing enlivens discussion on filmmaking in a time and place of intense social transformation, technological innovation and growing permissiveness.

• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Film, Kino Filmgeschichte, Filmtheorie und Filmkritik
• ISBN: 9781800734777
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.05.2022
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books