Soho on Screen

Soho on Screen

Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963

Young, Jingan

Berghahn Books

02/2025

262

Mole

9781805397298

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List of Illustrations



Foreword

Peter Bradshaw



Author's Preface

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Soho, 'The Forbidden City'



Chapter 1. Tracking Shot: Soho Square to Wardour Street, London's 'Film Row'

Chapter 2. Soho's Bohemian-Cosmopolitans and Post-War British Cinema

Chapter 3. God Is Everywhere!': Engineering the Immigrant Landscape of Miracle in Soho (1957)

Chapter 4. Soho-Hollywood: The Birth of the Soho 'B' Film

Chapter 5. Old Perils, New Pleasures: West End Jungle (1960) and the Birth of Commercial Vice

Chapter 6. 'An' I fort Jews were supposed to be lucky!': Jewish Wide Boys, Johnny Jackson and Sammy Lee

Chapter 7. Soho Melodrama: Spaces of Sexual Blackmail, The Flesh is Weak (1957) and The Shakedown (1960)

Chapter 8. Subversive female sexualities and the Soho coffee bar: Beat Girl (1960) and Rag Doll (1961)

Chapter 9. Soho Strip Clubs (I): The Windmill Theatre and its Cinematic Legacy

Chapter 10. Soho Strip Clubs (II): The Stage and the Dressing Room



Conclusion: 'Warm-hearted Tarts' and the year 'old Soho' died: Campaigns, rebirth and The World Ten Times Over (1963)



Filmography

Bibliography

Index
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Film and Television Studies, Media Studies