For over five decades, the Newcastle-based Amber Film and Photography Collective has been a critical (if often unheralded) force within British documentary filmmaking, producing a variety of innovative works focused on working-class society. Situating their acclaimed output within wider social, political, and historical contexts, In Fading Light provides an accessible introduction to Amber’s output from both national and transnational perspectives, including experimental, low-budget documentaries in the 1970s; more prominent feature films in the 1980s; studies of post-industrial life in the 1990s; and the distinctive perils and opportunities posed by the digital era.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Histories of Amber
Chapter 2. Salvaging the Past, 1968 to 1980
Chapter 3. Can’t Beat It Alone: Current Affairs and Investigations, 1982 to 1988
Chapter 4. The Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen Films, 1983 to 1994
Chapter 5. Dream On: Drama Features, 1981 to 1991
Chapter 6. From the Tyne to the Coalfields: Feature Films, 1995 to 2005
Chapter 7. Still Here: Amber in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion: Amber at Fifty
Select Bibliography
Amber Filmography
Index
About the author
James Leggott lectures in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror (2008), and the co-editor of volumes on UK science fiction film and television, the comedy of Chris Morris, and British period-drama television. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Popular Television.
More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
21,045 Ebooks in this category
