On this page you can find a list of the publications, journal articles and conference papers produced by the project team since January 2015. Links are included to articles which are open access and free to view/download.
Journal Articles:
Duncan Petrie, ‘A Changing Visual Landscape: British Cinematography in the 1960s’, Journal of British Cinema and Television 15:2 April 2018, 204-227.
Richard Farmer, ‘An almost continuous picture of sordid vice: The Keeler Affair, the Profumo scandal and “political” film censorship in the 1960s’. Accepted for publication in Journal of British Cinema and Television 15:2 April 2018, 228–251.
Laura Mayne, ‘An Uncompetitive Cinema: The British Fiction Short Film in the 1960s’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, online advance access, 13 March 2017.
Duncan Petrie, ‘Bryanston Films: An Experiment in Cooperative Independent Production and Distribution’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, online advance access, 16 February 2017.
Richard Farmer, ‘The Profumo affair in popular culture: The Keeler Affair (1963) and “the commercial exploitation of a public scandal”’, Contemporary British History, online advance access, November 2016.
Laura Mayne, ‘Whatever Happened to the British ‘B’ Movie? Micro Budget Film-making and the Death of the One Hour Supporting Feature in the Early 1960s’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, online advance access, September 2016.
Melanie Williams, ‘The Girl You Don’t See: Julie Harris and the Costume Designer in British Cinema’, Feminist Media Histories, Spring 2016.
Richard Farmer, ‘Cinema advertising and the Sea Witch ‘Lost Island’ film (1965)‘, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, online advance access, January 2016.
Duncan Petrie, ‘Resisting Hollywood Dominance in Sixties British Cinema: The NFFC/Rank Joint Financing Initiative’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, online advance access, January 2016.
Media Publications:
Laura Mayne, ‘Otley’, DVD/Blu-ray booklet essay for Otley, (Dick Clement, 1969), (Powerhouse/Indicator, release date March 19 2018)
[Interview] Laura Mayne and Melanie Williams, ‘Hammer’s Women’, special feature content for Hammer: Criminal Intent box set (Powerhouse/Indicator, release date February 19 2018).
Melanie Williams, ‘The Pumpkin Eater’, DVD/Blu-ray booklet essay for The Pumpkin Eater, (Jack Clayton, 1964), (Powerhouse/Indicator, release date December 4 2017).
Laura Mayne, ‘Torture Garden and the Amicus House of Horror’, DVD/Blu-ray booklet essay for Torture Garden (Freddie Francis, 1967), (Powerhouse/Indicator, release date October 28 2017).
Laura Mayne, ‘The swinging 60s may be a fantasy, but the decade still casts today in a bad light’, The Conversation, 4 January 2017.
Laura Mayne, ‘Sixties British Cinema’, Viewfinder 101, November 2015.
Guest blogs:
Richard Farmer, ‘Colour advertising films in British cinemas’, AHRC Eastmancolor Revolution and British Cinema Project, January 18, 2018
Laura Mayne, ‘NOT the British New Wave: 5 ‘kitchen sink’ dramas the critics never talk about’, IAMHIST blog, August 15, 2017
——–‘Rogers and Rothwell‘, Carry On Blogging, October 17, 2016
——–‘Forgotten from the archives: concept art for The Terrornauts‘, We Are Cult, November 13, 2016
———‘Seeking the variety of live performance in The Rolling Stones’ Rock n Roll Circus (1968)‘, In Media Res, 1 August 2015
Conference papers:
Project panel at the annual British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) conference, April 21-23 2017:
- Richard Farmer, ‘”The Bilk Marketing Board proudly presents…”: The British trad-jazz pop musical’
- Melanie Williams, ‘Gender, genre and adaptation: looking for the British woman’s film of the 1960s’
- Laura Mayne, ‘”Ohh, it’s all happening!” Genres in transition in 1960s British cinema’
Project panel at the annual Screen Studies conference, Glasgow, 23 June 2016:
- Richard Farmer, ‘”Blabbing on about frozen peas”: British cinema and British television advertising in the 1960s’
- Melanie Williams, ‘Movie Gear: British film’s relationship with fashion in the 1960s’
- Duncan Petrie, ‘British Film Production in the 1960s: State Support and the Impact of Hollywood Finance’
- Laura Mayne, ‘It started with a database: new approaches to researching 1960s British cinema’
Richard Farmer, ‘Colour film and cinema advertising.’ Second International Conference on Colour in Film, London, 29 March 2017
——–‘The Touchables (1968) and the cinematic counter-culture’, Tonite Let’s All Make Love in Leicester: Peter Whitehead and the Long 1960s, De Montfort University, March 2017
———‘Snap, Crackle and Rock? Pop Music and Advertising in the 1960s’, Transmedia musics conference, University of Leicester, 18 November 2016
———‘The worst film you’ve never seen: The Keeler Affair and the Profumo scandal as popular culture’, Institute of Historical Research, London, 3 November 2016 [*open to public]
Laura Mayne, ‘”People prefer colour”: the wholesale transition from black and white to colour in 1960s British Cinema’, Second International Conference on Colour in Film, London, 29 March 2017
——–‘The changing British cinema programme in the 1960s: A view from the producers, the distributors, the exhibitors and the audience’, research seminar series, University of York, November 2016.
——–‘Transformation and Tradition in Sixties British Cinema: Production Cultures, Cross Media Relations and National Branding’, Media Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, March 2016 and De Montfort University, March 2016.
Duncan Petrie, ‘A Changing Visual Landscape: 1960s British Cinematography’, research seminar at University of Bristol, March 2017
Melanie Williams, ‘Hart of darkness? The film career of David Hart and right-wing counterculture’, Tonite Let’s All Make Love in Leicester: Peter Whitehead and the Long 1960s, De Montfort University, March 2017
———‘Reading the costume sketch: interpreting Julie Harris’s designs for Psyche ’59 (1964)’, Doing Women’s Film and Television History III, De Montfort University, May 2016
Transformation and Tradition in Sixties British Cinema 