If...

by Mark Sinker

Lindsay Anderson's film if... (1968), starring Malcolm McDowell as a schoolboy who leads a guerilla insurgence, imagines how repression, conformity, and fusty ritual at an English public school could... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844570401
• ISBN13: 9781844570409
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Worth reading

I found this book much more worthwhile than the other reviewer. It's not one of the best books on film I've ever read, but it is the most thorough treatment of If... that I've found. Aside from this text, a good critique of the film is found in Film and the Anarchist Imagination by Richard Porton.