Acknowledgements
Introduction by Paul Newland
Chapter 1: Keynote Lecture, Don’t Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s
Conference, University of Exeter, July 2007
Sue Harper
Section I: Individuals and the Industry
Chapter 2: Stanley Baker and British Lion: A Cautionary Tale
Robert Shail
Chapter 3: Staccato and Wrenchingly Modern: Reflections on the 1970s Stardom of Glenda Jackson
Melanie Williams
Section II: On the Margins of British Cinema
Chapter 4: Alternative Film Exhibition in the English Regions during the 1970s
Vincent Porter
Chapter 5: Multiple Voices: The Silent Cry and Artists’ Moving Image in the 1970s
William Fowler
Chapter 6: On the Margins: Anthony Simmons, The Optimists of Nine Elms and Black Joy
Josie Dolan and Andrew Spicer
Chapter 7: We Know Where We’re Going, We Know Where We’re From: Babylon
Paul Newland
Section III: Anxiety and Alienation, Deviance and Desire
Chapter 8: The Power to Create Catastrophe: The Idea of Apocalypse in 1970s British Cinema
Peter Hutchings
Chapter 9: Hideous Sexy: The Eroticized Body and Deformity in 1970s British Horror Films
Peri Bradley
Chapter 10: Masculinity and Deviance in British Cinema of the 1970s: Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll in The Wicker Man, Tommy and The Rocky Horror Picture Show
E. Anna Claydon
Chapter 11: ‘The “lack” and How to Get It’: Reading Male Anxiety in A Clockwork Orange, Tommy and The Man Who Fell to Earth
Justin Smith
Section IV: British Cinema and Television
Chapter 12: The Last Studio System: A Case for British Television Films
Dave Rolinson
Chapter 13: ‘Pre-sold to Millions’: The Sitcom Films of the 1970s
Adrian Garvey
Chapter 14: Class, Nostalgia and Newcastle: Contested Space in TheLikely Lads
Paul Williams
Chapter 15: Hovis, Ovaltine, Mackeson’s and the Days of Hope Debate
Amy Sargeant
Section V: British Films and British Filmakers
Chapter 16: ‘What is there to Smile At?’ Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man!
John Izod, Karl Magee, Kathryn Mackenzie and Isabelle Gourdin
Chapter 17: Dead Ends and Private Roads: The 1970s Films of Barney Platts-Mills
James Leggott
Chapter 18: Landscape Gardens in The Ruling Class
Mark Broughton
Chapter 19: Beneath the Surface: Nicolas Reog’s Don’t Look Now
Andrew Patch
Notes on Contributors
Index
