Setting the scene -- Early stages : British design in the silent era -- The foreign touch : émigré design of the 1930s -- Prestige design : working for Rank in the 1940s -- Cheap laughs and cheap thrills -- No sets please, we're British : polemical realism via the new wave -- Do they mean us? : American-financed design of the 1960s -- Pictorial design -- Do we mean us? : British visions, and visions of Britain -- Surveying the scene.
Bibliog.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index.
