Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered

Duncan Petrie is Professor of Film and Television at the University of York. He is the author of Creativity and Constraint in the British Film Industry (Macmillan, 1991), The British Cinematographer (BFI, 1996), Screening Scotland (BFI, 2000), Contemporary Scottish Fictions: Film, Television and the Novel (EUP, 2004), Shot in New Zealand: The Art and Craft of the Kiwi Cinematographer (Random House, 2007), A Coming of Age: 30 Years of New Zealand Film (Random House, 2008) and co-author of Educating Film-Makers: Past, Present, Future (Intellect, 2014) and Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema (EUP, 2019). Duncan has also edited or co-edited a further ten volumes and is co-principal editor of The Journal of British Cinema and Television. Melanie Williams is Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the co-author of Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema (EUP, 2019), and author of Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question (EUP, 2017), David Lean (MUP, 2014), as well as numerous articles on British cinema. She also co-edited Shane Meadows: Critical Essays (EUP, 2013), Ealing Revisited (BFI, 2012), Mamma Mia! The Movie: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon (I B Tauris, 2012) and British Women's Cinema (Routledge, 2009), and is co-principal editor of The Journal of British Cinema and Television. Laura Mayne is a Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Hull. Her research specialism is in postwar British cinema with an emphasis on industrial histories, institutional practices and production cultures, and she has published widely in this area. She is the co-author of Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema (EUP, 2019).