Introduction: Lost, strayed and forgotten-William K. Everson and the British Cinema.

EVERSON, William K.; FILM critics; BRITISH films; MOTION picture industry; FILM criticism

Discusses William K. Everson's critical revisionism when it came to British films. Ways in which Everson saw the evidence of British style, history, characteristic and culture everywhere; Assaults on the critical establishment in Everson's notes; Concern with locating the essentially British qualities of British cinema; Collection of Everson's notes for both the New School for Social Research in New York City and the Huff Society.