Today I've been reading a fascinating paper by Steve Chibnall, Hammer Lover and Professor in Residence at The Cinema Museum. He's custodian of the Hammer archive at De Montfort University and wrote that brilliant Pete Walker book, amongst other things. This paper, published by the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television in Volume 33, Issue 2, 2013, is fascinating, and provides an interesting historical context for my studies. In "Rome, Open for British Production: The lost world of 'Britalian' films, 1946-1954", Steve details the relationship the British film industry had with war-torn Italy, and essentially posits that it was the British who kicked their industry back into shape, ready to become the incredible film-making machine they were in the 1960s.
You can download the paper here.
I went to Steve's amazing Hammer festival in Leicester last summer, which you can read about in my report over at Cinema Retro.
As Steve covers her first film, and quotes from Picturegoer extensively, it seemed like a good excuse to post this cover of Gina Lollabrigida from my own collection.
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