All Outputs (4)

Interview: Allan Cubitt (2009)
Journal Article

Allan Cubitt is an important contemporary writer who has worked in fringe theatre, television and film. The interview was the first critical profile he has received and thus an original contribution to the history of screenwriting and British cinema.... Read More about Interview: Allan Cubitt.

Creativity and the 'B' feature: Terence Fisher's crime films (2006)
Journal Article

This article explores the neglected area of the B Feature, produced by small companies on very tight budgets. It explores how it is possible to be creative in these constrained circumstances by concentrating on the crime film directed by Terence Fish... Read More about Creativity and the 'B' feature: Terence Fisher's crime films.

What cannot be said: 'Silent Dust'(1949)and the malevolent veteran (2005)
Journal Article

This was a counterpoint to the book chapter on service comedy. It explored a different type of 'unofficial' counter-hegemonic constructions of the Second World War' by focusing on a group of British films made immediately after the war and sporadical... Read More about What cannot be said: 'Silent Dust'(1949)and the malevolent veteran.

The production line: Reflections on the role of the producer in British cinema (2004)
Journal Article

A film producer has two responsibilities: to the public and to his backers. If he is an imaginative and courageous producer, the two may coincide. The ideal producer, it seems to me, must always look ahead and try not merely to acquiesce in box-offic... Read More about The production line: Reflections on the role of the producer in British cinema.