Table of Contents
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