In order to contextualise The Go-Between’s complex landscaping, this chapter combines close analysis with cross-disciplinary landscape history. It traces the film’s roots from the emergence of a new discourse about the ...

The book will aim to place Brideshead Revisited in the context of television history, while considering the influence of various films on its style. Informed by art history, I will also discuss the serial’s use of locations ...

My paper explores how, in films like Wonderwall (1968), More (1969) and Performance (1970), psychedelic effects are not contained by the points of view of characters who are under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs. I ...

What have been the major watersheds in the history of country-estate films and television? Whether this history is seen as one of modes of production, aesthetics or ideology, it is Joseph Losey’s deployment of the country ...

Nigel Kneale was the most influential science-fiction writer in British television of the twentieth century, as my account seeks to establish. Although his oeuvre has been summarised in biographical encyclopaedias before, ...

That Ivor Montagu was invited by Michael Balcon to refine The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Hitchcock, UK, 1926) is well known. The film’s avant-garde tendencies can, in part, be attributed to Montagu’s involvement. ...

Landscape gardens in television fiction are rarely discussed, yet they have often played significant aesthetic roles, in some cases constituting figures of narrative design. This paper will discuss The Box of Delights (BBC, ...

British film adaptations of novels and plays set in country estates frequently carry a much greater emphasis on landscape gardens than their source texts. This interpolation of landscape seems, therefore, to be intrinsic ...

The Go-Between (Joseph Losey, 1971) makes the causal links between the body and the country estate in which it performs ironically explicit. These links are brutal. The country estate’s grounds have been landscaped and its ...

Little attention has been paid to the effects that different distribution windows in the pre-DVD era had on television programmes. This paper considers the architecture in Granada's Brideshead Revisited and how cinema ...