Andy Miller

From cheap sex comedies to gritty brilliance: British culture comes of age

Simon Matthews hails the brave individuals who took us from the nadir of the 1970s to black cinema, punk rock and 1980s agitprop

Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins and Brian Hall in The Long Good Friday, 1980. Credit: Alamy
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  • Looking for a New England: Action, Time, Vision, Music, Film and TV, 1975-1986

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    Oldcastle Books, pp. 320, £16

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