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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of Walker's "Hollywood UK". The cultural forces affecting the evolution of British cinema in the 1960s are explored. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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placing British filmmaking on the international radar. Such feats were largely accomplished by successfully genre pictures made throughout the 1950s, and a relaxing of censorial policies on filmmaking during the
1960s that allowed British filmmakers to more freely explore previously taboo topics such as sex and nudity. However, Walkers treatment of the era is not purely historical. Rather, he places
emphasis on his role as a cultural critic by assessing the aesthetic quality of various films produced during the 1960s, as well as the variety of cultural forces that worked
together in tandem in order to drive filmmaking out of the somber, facile quagmire of post-World War II war pictures and towards a more salable and aesthetically identifiable cultural object.
This paragraph helps the student assess the historical trends that led up to the 1960s boom in British filmmaking. Early British cinema enjoyed a great deal of success, particularly
as far as documentaries and adaptations are concerned. Additionally, the economic conditions driving the production of an abundant number of "studio pictures" during that era would drive forward the careers
of such legendary talents as Hitchcock. After World War II, however, it was as if the national cinema took two steps back. Critics have largely agreed on the substandard quality
of British cinema in the years immediately following World War II, agreeing that the swath of war pictures expressed a misguided conservative nostalgia for a halcyon time period from "before
the war" that never actually existed (Walker, 2005). As such, these films are largely superficial and contain few if any genuine statements on the nature of actual life. This
trend, however, was combatted by the arrival of the British New Wave in the late 1950s. In direct contrast to the pictures made immediately following World War II, the British
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