Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema

Richard Farmer is Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of East Anglia. He has published widely on British cinema and is the author of two monographs: The Food Companions: Cinema and Consumption in Wartime Britain, 1939-45 (2011) and Cinemas and Cinemagoing in Wartime Britain, 1939-45: The Utility Dream Palace (2016). Laura Mayne is an Associate Lecturer at the University of York. Her research specialism is in post-war British cinema with an emphasis on industrial history, institutional practices and production cultures, and she has published widely on these subjects. She is currently working on her first monograph, titled Slumdogs and Millionaires: The Story of Film4. Duncan Petrie is Professor of Film at the University of York. His publications include Creativity and Constraint in the British Film Industry (1991), The British Cinematographer (1996), Screening Scotland (2000), Contemporary Scottish Fictions (2004), Shot in New Zealand (2007) and Educating Film-Makers (2014). Melanie Williams is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. Her publications include the monographs David Lean (2014) and Female Stars of British Cinema (2017) and the co-edited collections British Women's Cinema (2009) and Ealing Revisited (2012).