Soho on Screen: Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963

Jingan Young

Soho on Screen: Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 May 2022
Pages
262
ISBN
9781800734777

Soho on Screen: Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963

Jingan Young

Despite Soho’s rich cultural history, there remains an absence of work on the depiction of the popular neighbourhood in film. Soho on Screen provides one of the first studies of Soho within postwar British cinema. Drawing upon historical, cultural and urban studies of the area, this book explores twelve films and theatrically released documentaries from a filmography of over one hundred Soho set productions. While predominantly focusing on low-budget, exploitation films which are exemplars of British and international filmmaking, Young also offers new readings of star and director biographies, from Laurence Harvey to Emeric Pressburger, and in so doing enlivens discussion on filmmaking in a time and place of intense social transformation, technological innovation and growing permissiveness.

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