Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Notes on Contributors x
6. Foreword xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. chapter 1 ‘Usual stimulating awful marvellous Northern urban landscape’: Authorship, Poetry and Placemaking in Lindsay Anderson’s 1960s Filmography 15
9. chapter 2 The White Bus and Townscape 32
10. chapter 3 ‘A poetic version of a News of the World story’: Gender, Realism and Single Motherhood in This Sporting Life 43
11. chapter 4 Boarding School Stories: A Critical Reflection on Lindsay Anderson’s If. . . . 55
12. chapter 5 Ego and Alter Ego: Malcolm McDowell in the Films of Lindsay Anderson 68
13. chapter 6 The Angry Young Man Strikes: An Exploration into Lindsay Anderson’s Political Satires 79
14. chapter 7 ‘He’s not what people expect a working-class writer to be’: Class, Region and Realism in the Work of David Storey and Lindsay Anderson 90
15. chapter 8 In Celebration of a Brilliant Craftsman: The Strange Likeness of Lindsay Anderson, William Wyler and Anthony Asquith 101
16. chapter 9 ‘Crass stupidity’: The Critics and The Old Crowd 116
17. chapter 10 Spine-chilling Possibilities: Britannia Hospital and British Horror Production 133
18. chapter 1 1 Becoming Flesh: Queer Vulnerabilities in Britannia Hospital 147
19. chapter 12 If You Were There . . .: The Legacy of Free Cinema 160
20. chapter 13 The Popularity of The Whales of August and a Short History of Lindsay Anderson in Japan 173
21. chapter 14 Bette, Lillian and Lindsay – and The Whales of August 188
22. Bibliography 200
23. Index 215