Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution of production personnel beyond the director, and discusses how cultural change is reflected in both film style and cinematic themes.

Introduction; Duncan Petrie and Melanie Williams PART ONE: STARS AND STARDOM Male Stardom in 1960s British Cinema; Andrew Spicer ‘Rebel Rebel’?: Oliver Reed in the 1960s; Caroline Langhorst Carol White: The Bardot of Battersea; Margherita Sprio ‘The Old Wave at Work’: The Transatlantic Stardom of the British Character Actress in the 1960s; Claire Mortimer PART TWO: CREATIVE COLLABORATION Woodery-pokery: Charles Wood’s Sixties Screenwriting; David Cairns ‘Beyond Naturalism’: Jocelyn Herbert, If ….(1968) and design for performance in 1960s British cinema; Vicky Lowe Kes: from page to screen; David Forrest and Sue Vice ‘I’d like to remember you as you are – as just a grumpy old man’: Joseph Losey and Figures in a Landscape (1970); Llewella Chapman PART THREE: STYLE AND GENRE ‘Wholesome rough stuff’: Hammer Films and the ‘A’ and ‘U’ Certificate, 1959-65; Paul Frith Widescreen Pyrotechnics: Shot Composition and Staging in the Cold War Films of Joseph Losey and Sidney J. Furie; Steven Roberts The Rise and Fall of the Colourful Corporate Fantasy in 1960s British Cinema; Carolyn Rickards Witchfinders and Sorcerers: Sorcery and counterculture in the work of Michael Reeves; Virginie Sélavy PART FOUR: CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS ‘An Impulse of Anger, Instantly Regretted’: Rebellion and Reaction in the early 1960s Naval Film; Mark Fryers Narratives of Race and Identity in Sixties British Cinema; Phillip Drummond Panic at the Disco: Brainwashing, Alienation, and the Discothèque in Swinging London films; Sophia Satchell-Baeza