"--Jacket. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture surveys British cultural practice in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema's love affair with the erotic.

This thought-provoking book argues that theories of harm and women's subordination have deflected attention away from the lived experiences and practices of pornography.

This book explores British cinema in relation to its social political and cultural contexts.

Identifying 'permissive populism', the trickle down of permissiveness into mass consumption, as a key feature of the 1970s, Leon Hunt considers the values of an ostensibly 'bad' decade and analyses the implications of the 1970s for issues ...

Twenty-one tales of stardom turned sour, these are the tragic final years of some of the world's best-loved actors and comedians, a latter-day Hollywood Babylon that includes Benny Hill, Diana Dors, Peter Sellers, Carry On legends and many ...

In Cinemas of the World, James Chapman examines the relationship between film and society in the modern world: film as entertainment medium, film as a reflection of national cultures and preoccupations, film as an instrument of propaganda.

This enlightening book presents new perspectives on how women's bodies are viewed and absorbed in popular culture, and considers some of the ways in which the body is central to questions of women's sexual and other identities.