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Author : Ed Harris
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781445611877
From the first Sherlock Holmes film to the African Queen, the only full account of this important film studio
Author : Stephen Glynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030051808
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of horseracing in British cinema. Through comprehensive contextual histories of film production and reception, together with detailed textual analysis, this book explores the aesthetic and emotive power of the enduringly popular horseracing genre, its ideologically-inflected landscape and the ways in which horse owners and riders, bookmakers and punters have been represented on British screen. The films discussed span from the 1890s to the present day and include silent shorts, quota quickies and big-budget biopics. A work of social and film history, The British Horseracing Film demonstrates how the so-called “sport of kings” functions as an accessible institutional structure through which to explore cinematic discussions about the British nation—but also, and equally, national approaches to British cinema.
Author : Alan Burton,Steve Chibnall
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810880269
British cinema has been around from the very birth of motion pictures, from black-and-white to color, from talkies to sound, and now 3D, it has been making a major contribution to world cinema. Many of its actors and directors have stayed at home but others ventured abroad, like Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock. Today it is still going strong, the only real competition to Hollywood, turning out films which appeal not only to Brits, just think of Bridget Jones, while busily adding to franchises like James Bond and Harry Potter. So this Historical Dictionary of British Cinema has a lot of ground to cover. This it does with over 300 dictionary entries informing us about significant actors, producers and directors, outstanding films and serials, organizations and studios, different films genres from comedy to horror, and memorable films, among other things. Two appendixes provide lists of award-winners. Meanwhile, the chronology covers over a century of history. These parts provide the details, countless details, while the introduction offers the big story. And the extensive bibliography points toward other sources of information.
Author : Michael Ingham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317555216
Dialogue between film and theatre studies is frequently hampered by the lack of a shared vocabulary. Stage-Play and Screen-Play sets out to remedy this, mapping out an intermedial space in which both film and theatre might be examined. Each chapter’s evaluation of the processes and products of stage-to-screen and screen-to-stage transfer is grounded in relevant, applied contexts. Michael Ingham draws upon the growing field of adaptation studies to present case studies ranging from Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan and RSC Live’s simulcast of Richard II to F.W. Murnau’s silent Tartüff, Peter Bogdanovich’s film adaptation of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, and Akiro Kurosawa’s Ran, highlighting the multiple interfaces between media. Offering a fresh insight into the ways in which film and theatre communicate dramatic performances, this volume is a must-read for students and scholars of stage and screen.
Author : Carol Dyhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198765837
From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types, or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us a great deal about the history of women.
Author : Philip Gillett
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443891851
Some films are remembered long after they are released; others are soon forgotten, but do they deserve oblivion? Are factors other than quality involved? This book exhumes some of the films released in Britain over the last seventy years from Daybreak (1948) to 16 Years of Alcohol (2003), and considers the reasons for their neglect. As well as exploring the contributions of those involved in making the films, the book examines such issues as marketing and the response of critics and audiences. Films are grouped loosely into categories such as “B” films and television films. Some works were little seen when they were first released and have stayed that way; others were popular in their day, but have slipped into obscurity. In some cases, social change has overtaken them, making the attitudes or subjects they depict seem dated. Even being released as a DVD does not guarantee that a title will be rehabilitated. In addition, how significant is the American market? This book should appeal to lovers of British film, as well as to film studies students and everybody curious about the vagaries of success and failure in the arts.
Author : Justine Ashby,Andrew Higson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415220613
British Cinema brings together leading international scholars to investigate the rich diversity of Britain's film production, and explore the different cultural traditions which have shaped Britain's national identity onscreen.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. National Heritage Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : IND:30000096859560
Author : Margaret Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857712646
Relations between France and Britain have always been uneasy and ambivelant. But in cinema, WWII changed all that for a time. Although the two countries' wartime fortunes differed, post-war both were busy reintegrating returning servicemen and prisoners of war, and accomodating the changed aspirations of women. Margaret Butler examines these subjects and more in her comparative study of the cinemas of Britain and France during and after the war. Using the concept of continuity, she shows how cinema dealt directly with ideas of belonging and alienation, inclusion and exclusion, unity and division. She also draws on contemporary debates and offers a perceptive reading of key films, to reveal the meaning and appeal of French classics like "Les Enfants du Paradis" and notable British productions like "Waterloo Road".
Author : Rachael Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136205859
This set is one of the cornerstones of film scholarship, and one of the most important works on twentieth century British culture. Published between 1948 and 1985, the volumes document all aspects of film making in Britain from its origins in 1896 to 1939. Rachael Low pioneered the interpretation of films in their context, arguing that to understand films it was necessary to establish their context. Her seven volumes are an object lesson in meticulous research, lucid analysis and accessible style, and have become the benchmark in film history.
Author : Rachael Low
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0415156483
Author : P. Preston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137023834
Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'.
Author : Stephen Shafer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134988372
Challenges the conventional assumption that British feature films of the Thirties were oriented mostly towards the middle-class and demonstrates that far from being alienated, working class men and women flocked to the cinema.
Author : Ian Jack
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781446448090
In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack sets out to deal with contemporary Britain - from national disasters to football matches to obesity - but is always drawn back in time, vexed by the question of what came first. In 'Women and Children First', watching the film Titanic leads into an investigation into the legend of Wallace Henry Hartley, the famous band leader of the doomed liner, while 'The 12.10 to Leeds', a magnificent report on the Hatfield rail crash, begins its hunt for clues in the eighteenth century in the search for those responsible. Further afield, he finds vestiges of a vanished Britain in the Indian subcontinent, meeting characters like maverick English missionary and linguist William Carey, credited with importing India's first steam engine. Full of the style, knowledge and intimacy that makes his work so special, this collection is the perfect introduction to the work of one of the country's finest writers.
Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199911509
The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests, and in command of a global production system. Rather than belittled by a Nazi behemoth, Britain arguably had the world's most advanced mechanized forces. It had not only a great empire, but allies large and small. Edgerton shows that Britain fought on many fronts and its many home fronts kept it exceptionally well supplied with weapons, food and oil, allowing it to mobilize to an extraordinary extent. It created and deployed a vast empire of machines, from the humble tramp steamer to the battleship, from the rifle to the tank, made in colossal factories the world over. Scientists and engineers invented new weapons, encouraged by a government and prime minister enthusiastic about the latest technologies. The British, indeed Churchillian, vision of war and modernity was challenged by repeated defeat at the hands of less well-equipped enemies. Yet the end result was a vindication of this vision. Like the United States, a powerful Britain won a cheap victory, while others paid a great price. Putting resources, machines and experts at the heart of a global rather than merely imperial story, Britain's War Machine demolishes timeworn myths about wartime Britain and gives us a groundbreaking and often unsettling picture of a great power in action.