If.... - Mark Sinker (BFI Film Classics) Science Fiction from his birth in 1906

from his birth in 1906 through his childhood in the fortress-like Forbidden City and his later misguided collaboration with the Japanese in World War II

The workers at a vineyard engage in pagan rituals which result in mysterious behaviour by the inheritor of the land

as they discover the sinister secrets lurking within its crumbling walls

radio adaptation

If.... - Mark Sinker (BFI Film Classics) Science Fiction from his birth in 1906'If.' by Mark Sinker (BFI Film Classics 112 page paperback) In his compelling study of if., Mark Sinker traces director Lindsay Anderson's depiction of the progress from repression, conformity and fusty ritual to anarchy and bloody revolt.