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Roy Ward Baker

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Roy Ward Baker
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Geoff Mayer
SeriesBritish Film-Makers
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:232
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreIndividual film directors and film-makers
ISBN/Barcode 9780719063558
ClassificationsDewey:791.430233092
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 1 April 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book traces the career of Roy Ward Baker, one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry. He directed the landmark British film Morning Departure (1949), worked at Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood in the early 1950s where he directed Marilyn Monroe's 'breakthrough' film (Don't Bother to Knock), and followed this with a succession of fine films for Rank, culminating in the best version of the Titanic disaster, A Night to Remember in 1958. Yet within three years he was unable to secure a job in the British film industry and he moved to television series such as The Avengers, The Saint and Minder. Later Baker re-emerged as a major director of science-fiction (Quatermass and the Pit) and horror films (Asylum). Geoff Mayer provides an industrial and aesthetic context in which to understand the interrelationship between a skilled classical director and the transformation of the British film industry in the 1950s. -- .

Author Biography

Geoff Mayer is Chair of the Cinema Studies Program at La Trobe University, Australia

Reviews

Really refreshing - treated with perception and intelligence Barry Forshaw, Crime Time 2005 No 43