The British cinema book. ([2019?])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The British cinema book. ([2019?])
- Main Title:
- The British cinema book
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Robert Murphy.
- Other Names:
- Murphy, Robert, 1947-
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction.- PART I: DEBATES AND CONTROVERSIES.- The British Cinema: The Known Cinema?; A.Lovell.- British Cinema as National Cinema: Production, Audience and Representation; J.Hill.- They Think It's All Over: British Cinema's US Surrender, A View from 2001; N.James.- Paradise Found and Lost: The Course of British Realism; G.Brown .- Lindsay Anderson and the Development of British Art Cinema; E.Hedling .- The Wrong Sort of Cinema: Refashioning the Heritage Film Debate; S.Hall.- British Cult Cinema; J.Smith.- PART II: INDUSTRY, GENRE, REPRESENTATION.- British Film Censorship; J.Richards & J.Robertson.- Exhibition and the Cinema-going Experience; A.Eyles.- Action, Spectacle and the Boy's Own Tradition in British Cinema; J.Chapman.- Traditions of the British Horror Film; I.Conrich.- Traditions of British Comedy; R.Dacre.- British Cinema and Black Representation; J.Pines.- Exiles and British Cinema; K.Gough-Yates.- Where Are Those Buggers?: Aspects of Homosexuality in Mainstream British Cinema; S.Bruzzi.- PART III: BRITISH CINEMA 1895–1939.- Before Blackmail: Silent British Cinema; C.Barr.- Big Studio Production in the Pre-Quota Years, J.Burrows.- Late Silent Britain; C.Gledhill.- The British Documentary Film Movement; I.Aitken.- British Film and the National Interest, 1927–39; S.Street.- A Despicable Tradition? Quota-quickies in the 1930s; L.Napper.- A British Studio System: The Associated British Picture Corporation and theAcknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction.- PART I: DEBATES AND CONTROVERSIES.- The British Cinema: The Known Cinema?; A.Lovell.- British Cinema as National Cinema: Production, Audience and Representation; J.Hill.- They Think It's All Over: British Cinema's US Surrender, A View from 2001; N.James.- Paradise Found and Lost: The Course of British Realism; G.Brown .- Lindsay Anderson and the Development of British Art Cinema; E.Hedling .- The Wrong Sort of Cinema: Refashioning the Heritage Film Debate; S.Hall.- British Cult Cinema; J.Smith.- PART II: INDUSTRY, GENRE, REPRESENTATION.- British Film Censorship; J.Richards & J.Robertson.- Exhibition and the Cinema-going Experience; A.Eyles.- Action, Spectacle and the Boy's Own Tradition in British Cinema; J.Chapman.- Traditions of the British Horror Film; I.Conrich.- Traditions of British Comedy; R.Dacre.- British Cinema and Black Representation; J.Pines.- Exiles and British Cinema; K.Gough-Yates.- Where Are Those Buggers?: Aspects of Homosexuality in Mainstream British Cinema; S.Bruzzi.- PART III: BRITISH CINEMA 1895–1939.- Before Blackmail: Silent British Cinema; C.Barr.- Big Studio Production in the Pre-Quota Years, J.Burrows.- Late Silent Britain; C.Gledhill.- The British Documentary Film Movement; I.Aitken.- British Film and the National Interest, 1927–39; S.Street.- A Despicable Tradition? Quota-quickies in the 1930s; L.Napper.- A British Studio System: The Associated British Picture Corporation and the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation in the 1930s; T.Ryall.- Low-budget British Films in the 1930s; L.Wood.- PART IV: BRITISH CINEMA FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO THE 70S.- The Heart of Britain: British Cinema at War; R.Murphy.- Melodrama and Femininity in Second World War British Cinema; M.Landy.- No Place Like Home: Powell, Pressburger Utopia; A.Moor.- Some Lines of Inquiry into Post-war British Crimes; R.Durgnat.- A Song and Dance at the Local: Thoughts on Ealing; T.Pulleine.- Methodism versus the Market-place: The Rank Organisation and British Cinema; V.Porter.- Bonnie Prince Charlie Revisited: British Costume Film in the 1950s; S.Harper.- 'Twilight women' of 1950s British Cinema; M.Williams.- Male Stars, Masculinity and British Cinema, 1945–60; A.Spicer.- Beyond the New Wave: Realism in British Cinema, 1959–63; P.Hutchings.- Women and 60s British Cinema: The Development of the 'Darling' Girl; C.Geraghty.- Strange Days: British Cinema in the Late 1960s; Robert Murphy.- 'Tutte e marchio!': Excess, Masquerade and Performativity in 70s Cinema; P.Church Gibson & A.Hill.- PART V: CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CINEMA.- New Romanticism' and the British Avant-Garde Film in the Early 80s; M.O'Pray .- Internal Decolonisation? British Cinema in the Celtic Fringe; M.McLoone.- Citylife: Urban Fairy-tales in Late 90s British Cinema; R.Murphy.- The More Things Change . . . British Cinema in the 90s; B.McFarlane.- Travels in Ladland: The British Gangster Film Cycle, 1998–2001; S.Chibnall.- Asian British Cinema since the 1990s; B.Korte & C.Sternberg .- Bright Hopes, Dark Dreams: A Guide to New British Cinema; R.Murphy.- Not Flagwaving But Flagdrowning, or Postcards from Post-Britain; W.Brown.- Postscript: A Short History of British Cinema; R.Murphy.- Index. … (more)
- Edition:
- 3rd ed
- Publisher Details:
- London : British Film Institute
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Copyright Date:
- 2009
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations
- Subjects:
- 791.430941
Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781838718640
1838718648
9781838718657 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781844572755
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.518113
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