Author Michael Fleming

Michael Fleming

Michael Fleming is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is researching director John Schlesinger in the context of the changing nature of British Cinema in the 1960s. His particular interest is the retreat from realism to surrealism as a cultural phenomenon of the sixties.

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The British New Wave: A Certain Tendency? by B.F. Taylor

Michael Fleming

April 2009

We know immediately from the title that this book accepts the existence of a “New Wave” in British cinema. B.F. Taylor begins with an unambiguous canon. For the record, his series in full is: Room at the Top...