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amber film and photography collective
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experimental film
feature film
film
film and photography
filmmaking
historical contexts
history
low budget documentary
media studies
post-industrial life
psychology
sociology
stunning photography
transnational perspective
transnationalism
video
visual art
working class
Product details
- ISBN 9781789206500
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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For over five decades, the Newcastle-based Amber Film and Photography Collective has been a critical (if often unheralded) force within British documentary filmmaking, producing a variety of innovative works focused on Left politics and working-class society. Situating their acclaimed output within wider social, political, and historical contexts, In Fading Light provides an accessible introduction to Amber's output in both national and transnational perspectives, including experimental, low-budget documentaries in the 1970s; more prominent feature films in the 1980s; studies of post-industrial life in the 1990s; and the distinctive perils and opportunities posed by the digital era.
James Leggott lectures in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror (2008), and the co-editor of volumes on UK science fiction film and television, the comedy of Chris Morris, and British period drama television. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Popular Television.
