Salford, 1971: a proud Pakistani chip shop owner lives with his white wife and seven children in a terraced house. The children rebel against his strict approach and his insistence that they are ...

Sex comedies, sitcom spin-offs... and the rise of a truly independent cinema Besides the sex comedy, the other genre indelibly associated with 1970s British cinema was the television spin-off, based ...

The creation of the National Coal Board (NCB) on 15th July 1946 sowed the seeds for one of Britain's most substantial and long-lasting industrial film units - the NCB Film Unit. Film production in ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife... Their cuts produce a faster-paced story, intended to engage contemporary ...

Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the experiences of real Britons on the screen, and shaping our ideas of what British ...

A complex treatise exploring feminism, motherhood and sexual difference in seven numbered chapters. Headings are: Opening Pages; Laura Talking; Stones; Louise's Story Told in 13 Shots; Acrobats; Laura ...

With his gaunt face and slight frame, this Hull-born, RADA-trained actor represented for a generation of filmgoers resistance to the status quo. He is divorced from stage actress Cheryl Kennedy, who ...

Shaun Terence Young's long career in British cinema encompassed a variety of genres and international co-productions, but he is best remembered as the director of three of the first four James Bond ...

A decade of radical change - not least for British cinema ...

A disparate group of campers band together to rid themselves of hippies planning an all-night rave next to their site. The dramatic contrast between the enclosed, static and make-believe logic of ...

To look separately at the role of women in the fields of film, video and television in Britain is to recognise that the experiences of women in these areas are somehow different to those of men. The ...