Cinema Memories brings together and analyses the memories of almost a thousand people of going to the cinema in Britain during the 1960s. It offers a fresh perspective on the social, cultural and film history of what has come to be seen as an iconic decade, with the release of films such as A Taste of Honey, The Sound of Music, Darling, Blow-Up, Alfie, The Graduate, and Bonnie and Clyde. Drawing on first-hand accounts, authors Melvyn Stokes, Matthew Jones and Emma Pett explore how cinema-goers constructed meanings from the films they watched - through a complex process of negotiation between the films concerned, their own social and cultural identities, and their awareness of changes in British society. Their analysis helps the reader see what light the cultural memory of 1960s cinema-going sheds on how the Sixties in Britain is remembered and interpreted. Positioning their study within debates about memory, 1960s cinema, and the seemingly transformative nature of this decade of British history, the authors reflect on the methodologies deployed, the use of memories as historical sources, and the various ways in which cinema and cinema-going came to mean something to their audiences.
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Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 21 Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781839025297
About Emma PettMatthew JonesMelvyn Stokes
Melvyn Stokes is Professor of Film History at University College London UK. He is the author and editor of books including Charlot: How the French Discovered Wrote About Defended and Resurrected Charlie Chaplin (Oxford University Press 2018); Cinéma et mémoire dans le cinéma Anglophone/Memory in-of English-speaking Cinema ed. (with Z. Saleh) (Michel Houdiard 2014); American History through Hollywood Film (Bloomsbury December 2013); Gilda (BFI Film Classics 2010); Cinéma et histoire/Cinema and History ed. (with G. Menegaldo) (Michel Houdiard 2008); D.W. Griffiths The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time (Oxford University Press 2007); Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema ed. (with R. Maltby and R. C. Allen) (University of Exeter Press 2007); and Hollywood Abroad: Audiences and Cultural Exchange ed. (with R. Maltby) (British Film Institute 2004). Matthew Jones is Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Television History De Montfort University UK. He is the author of Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain (Bloomsbury 2017). Emma Pett is Lecturer in Film Consumption at the University of East Anglia UK. She has published articles in journals including The Journal of British Cinema and Television and in edited books.