Film, Television And The Left, 1950-1970

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Product Description This meticulous researcher and detective has chased leads through archives and private collections. Documented here are early television political party broadcasts, analyses of campaign films, and the works of directors such as Lindsay Anderson. It includes analyses of the Left's political attitudes toward violence in film and pioneering work on television carried out by the New Left. In addition, it discusses questions of minority access to TV and film and the structure of the industry in the 1950s and 1960s. About the Author Bert Hogenkamp is the head of research at the Netherlands Audiovisual Archive and professor of film studies at the University of Utrecht. He is the author of Deadly Parallels: Film and the Left in Britain, 1929-39.