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Item Details
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ROY WARD BAKER
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| By: |
Geoff Mayer |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£45.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
071906354X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719063541 |
| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2004 |
| Series: |
British Film-Makers |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Description: |
Introduction: A classical director working in a melodramatic force field; 2. Realism - Flame in the Streets and A Night to Remember; 3. A morbid sensibility: 1947-1961; 4. Roy Ward Baker: Hammer and Amicus; 5. Conclusion: The One That Got Away; Filmography; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Synopsis: |
This book traces the career of Roy Ward Baker, one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry. He directed the landmark British film "Morning Departure "(1949), worked at Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood in the early 1950s where he directed Marilyn Monroe, and the best version of the Titanic disaster, "A Night to Remember" in 1958. He then moved to television series such as "The Avengers," "The Saint" and "Minder." Later Baker re-emerged as a major director of science-fiction ("Quatermass and The P"it) and horror films ("Asylum"). Geoff Mayer provides an industrial and aesthetic context in which to understand the interrelationship between a skilled classical director and the transformation of the British film industry in the 1950s. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, black & white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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