Street-Life and New Wave British Cinema of the 1960s - Ian Christie

00:00 // Introduction & Series Overview 03:30 // Peeping Tom (1960) – A Shocking Start to the Decade 08:00 // Swinging London & the Birth of a Myth 13:00 // Blow Up (1966) – Antonioni's London 19:00 // Reality vs. Illusion in 60s Cinema 25:00 // The Knack, Darling & The Servant 31:00 // The Ipcress File – The Anti-Bond London 37:00 // Cathy Come Home – TV Strikes Back 42:00 // Poor Cow & the Critique of Swinging London 46:00 // Cinema as a Space Machine – Doreen Massey Location shooting was a feature of ‘new wave’ film around the world in the 1960s. In Britain, it meant that British filmmakers broke out of the studio to find new subjects among the young, fashionable and disadvantaged, seen in their natural habitats – not only in the North and Midlands, but in unfamiliar parts of London. This lecture was recorded by Ian Christie on the 8th April 2019 Professor Christie was Visiting Professor in the History of Film and Media at Gresham College in 2017-2021. He is a renowned British film scholar and currently Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has researched and published on many aspects of film history, including Eisenstein and Russian cinema, Powell and Pressburger, Gilliam and Scorsese, and is a regular broadcaster on cinema. He has also worked on many exhibitions, including Spellbound (Hayward, 1996), Modernism (V&A, 2006) and Revolution: Russian Art 1917-32 (Royal Academy, 2017). His exhibition, Animatograph!, will be at London Metropolitan Archives during September-October 2019, and his monograph Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema (Chicago University Press) will appear later this year. The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/n... Gresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham College's mission, please consider making a donation: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/get-involve... Website: https://gresham.ac.uk X: https://x.com/GreshamCollege Facebook:   / greshamcollege   Instagram:   / greshamcollege   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/greshamcolle... TikTok:   / greshamcollege   Support Us: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/get-involve...