Don't Look Now

Paul Newland is a lecturer in film studies in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at Aberystwyth University.

'The essays in this highly stimulating collection reveal, clearly and persuasively, just how diverse, energetic and imaginative British cinematic creativity was during this rather maligned decade... In shining a bright light into one of the remaining dark corners in British cinema history Don’t Look Now is a welcome and extremely valuable contribution to the field.'

• Introduction: Don’t Look Now? British cinema in the 1970s – Paul Newland Keynote Address, Don’t Look Now? Conference, University of Exeter, July 2007 – Sue Harper Stanley Baker and British Lion: a Cautionary Tale – Robert Shail Staccato and wrenchingly modern: reflections on the 1970s stardom of Glenda Jackson – Melanie Williams Alternative Film Exhibition in the English Regions during the 1970s – Vincent Porter Multiple Voices: The Silent Cry and artists’ moving image in the 1970s – William Fowler On the Margins: Anthony Simmons, The Optimists of Nine Elms and Black Joy – Josie Dolan and Andrew Spicer We know where we’re going, we know where we’re from: Babylon – Paul Newland The Power to Create Catastrophe: The idea of apocalypse in 1970s British cinema – Peter Hutchings ‘The "lack" and how to get it’: reading male anxiety in A Clockwork Orange, Tommy and The Man Who Fell to Earth – Justin Smith Hideous Sexy: The Eroticised Body and Deformity in 1970s British Horror Films  – Peri Bradley Masculinity and deviance in British cinema of the 1970s: Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll in The Wicker Man, Tommy and The Rocky Horror Picture Show – E. Anna Claydon The last studio system: a case for British television films – Dave Rolinson ‘Pre-Sold to Millions’: The Sitcom Films of the 1970s – Adrian Garvey Class, Nostalgia and Newcastle: Contested Space in The Likely Lads – Paul Williams Hovis, Ovaltine, Mackeson’s and the Days of Hope debate – Amy Sargeant ‘What is there to smile at?’ Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man! – John Izod, Karl Magee, Kathryn Mackenzie and Isabelle Gourdin Dead End and Private Roads: The 1970s films of Barney Platts-MillsLandscape in The Ruling Class – Mark Broughton Beneath the Surface: Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now – Andrew Patch