Dissolving views : key writings on British cinema /: key writings on British cinema. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrew Higson.
• Editors: Higson, Andrew
• Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Hitchcock's British Films Revisited; Preface (1995); Hypnagogic structures: Hitchcock's British period (1980); Afterword (1995); Notes; 3. The Production Designer and the Gesamtkunstwerk: German Film Technicians in the British Film Industry of the 1930s; Refugees, residents and the mobility of labour; Continental know-how for British films; Public opinion and the Union; A 'Teutonic' aesthetic?; Note; 4. Engendering the Nation: British Documentary Film, 1930-1939; Notes. 5. Neither Here nor There: National Identity in Gainsborough Costume Drama6. The Quality Film Adventure: British Critics and the Cinema, 1942-1948; Critics as contemporary historians; Human like oneself; Light in the darkness; Organic unities; Flow; The visual; In a restrained tone; The truth of the real; Concentrating the mind wonderfully; Duplication; Authenticity; The spirit of reality; The search for documentary; Who makes films?; Industry and audience; Disillusion; Notes; 7. From Holiday Camp to High Camp: Women in British Feature Films, 1945-1951; Notes; 8. Victim: Text as Context. Preface (1995)Introduction; Situating Victim: Conceptualization of homosexuality; Situating Victim: Sexuality and British film culture; Reading Vietimi an indictment of repression; Afterword (1995); Notes; 9. Space, Place, Spectacle: Landscape and Townscape in the 'Kitchen Sink' Film; Notes; 10. Landscapes and Stories in 1960s British Realism; The Moment of the uses of literacy; Looking back in gender; Coronation Street, or 'Whatever happened to our Mam?'; Domestic interiors of the British New Wave; Aesthetic strategies and urban landscapes; Note. 11. The British Avant-Garde and Art Cinema from the 1970s to the 1990sNote; 12. A Post-national European Cinema: A Consideration of Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II; Note; 13. Beyond The Cinema of Duty'? The Pleasures of Hybridity: Black British Film of the 1980s and 1990s; 14. Crossing Thresholds: The Contemporary British Woman's Film; 15. The Heritage Film and British Cinema; Questions of genre; Historical antecedents; Ambivalence; Narratives of instability, images of stability; The question of emotionality; Melodrama and mise-en-scène; Marginal voices; Trivial histories. The question of receptionBibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.43/0941; Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History; PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference; Motion pictures; Great Britain; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474290654; 1474290655
• Related ISBNs: 9780304335282; 0304335282; 0304335290; 9780304335299
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO), viewed August 31, 2016.
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