Abstract/Summary

A series of interviews (and a contextualising Introduction). The interviews were conducted in the late 1990s, but are only now being published (in Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism). They are with the notable film critics / publishers / educators Ian Cameron, V.F. Perkins, Charles Barr and Alan Lovell, selected for their first-hand experience of the debates around the relative significance of film style which played out across a number of small film magazines and elements of the national press in the early 1960s. The interviews form part of a wider history of the critical writing concerned with film style and related debates.