期刊名称:FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts
印刷版ISSN:1749-9771
出版年度:2009
卷号:0
期号:09
语种:English
出版社:School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh
摘要:The British New Wave in cinema, which ran from 1958 to 1962, was built around the adaptation of a number of literary texts that derived their ‘newness’ by vocalising working-class protagonists, hitherto largely suppressed in popular visions of British society. As a knock-on-effect, British screen culture refreshed, suffering as it did from the same level of under-representation that blighted literature. In a wider context, the films’ freshness and vigour can also be seen to be identified in a new approach to film style and aesthetics which had more in common with the European art cinema than the staid traditions of British filmmaking.