Contents: Realism and 'Impure' cinema: the positive reception of British cinema after WWII - Francois Truffaut and the New Wave: the vilification of British cinema - The creation of an alternative canon: Positif, Midi-Minuit fantastique, British horror and the fantastic - The 'return of the social': Ken Loach in the pantheon - Contemporary press reviews - Interviews with French and British film critics Jean-Paul Torok and V.F. Perkins.

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The Author: Leila Wimmer holds a Ph.D. in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick and lectures in Film Studies at London Metropolitan University, UK.

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