British Cinema History

Author : Claire Monk,Amy Sargeant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136366567

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British Historical Cinema by Claire Monk,Amy Sargeant Pdf

Films recreating or addressing 'the past' - recent or distant, actual or imagined - have been a mainstay of British cinema since the silent era. From Elizabeth to Carry On Up The Khyber, and from the heritage-film debate to issues of authenticity and questions of genre, British Historical Cinema explores the ways in which British films have represented the past on screen, the issues they raise and the debates they have provoked. Discussing films from biopics to literary adaptations, and from depictions of Britain's colonial past to the re-imagining of recent decades in retro films such as Velvet Goldmine, a range of contributors ask whose history is being represented, from whose perspective, and why.

Author : I.Q. Hunter,Laraine Porter,Justin Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315392172

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The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History by I.Q. Hunter,Laraine Porter,Justin Smith Pdf

Over 39 chapters The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History offers a comprehensive and revisionist overview of British cinema as, on the one hand, a commercial entertainment industry and, on the other, a series of institutions centred on economics, funding and relations to government. Whereas most histories of British cinema focus on directors, stars, genres and themes, this Companion explores the forces enabling and constraining the films’ production, distribution, exhibition, and reception contexts from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors provide a wealth of empirical and archive-based scholarship that draws on insider perspectives of key film institutions and illuminates aspects of British film culture that have been neglected or marginalized, such as the watch committee system, the Eady Levy, the rise of the multiplex and film festivals. It also places emphasis on areas where scholarship has either been especially productive and influential, such as in early and silent cinema, or promoted new approaches, such as audience and memory studies.

Author : James Curran,Vincent Porter
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015005200863

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British Cinema History by James Curran,Vincent Porter Pdf

Author : Ian Christie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226610115

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Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema by Ian Christie Pdf

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumière brothers . But while these have generally been considered the foremost pioneers of film, they were not the only crucial figures in its inception. Telling the story of the white-hot years of filmmaking in the 1890s, Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema seeks to restore Robert Paul, Britain’s most important early innovator in film, to his rightful place. From improving upon Edison’s Kinetoscope to cocreating the first movie camera in Britain to building England’s first film studio and launching the country’s motion-picture industry, Paul played a key part in the history of cinema worldwide. It’s not only Paul’s story, however, that historian Ian Christie tells here. Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema also details the race among inventors to develop lucrative technologies and the jumbled culture of patent-snatching, showmanship, and music halls that prevailed in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Both an in-depth biography and a magnificent look at early cinema and fin-de-siècle Britain, Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema is a first-rate cultural history of a fascinating era of global invention, and the revelation of one of its undervalued contributors.

Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015054449163

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The British Cinema Book by Robert Murphy Pdf

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Author : Justine Ashby,Andrew Higson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135125080

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British Cinema, Past and Present by Justine Ashby,Andrew Higson Pdf

British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s. Providing a historical perspective to the contemporary resurgence of British cinema, this unique anthology brings together leading international scholars to investigate the rich diversity of British film production, from the early sound period of the 1930s to the present day. The contributors address: * British Cinema Studies and the concept of national cinema * the distribution and reception of British films in the US and Europe * key genres, movements and cycles of British cinema in the 1940s, 50s and 60s * questions of authorship and agency, with case studies of individual studios, stars, producers and directors * trends in British cinema, from propaganda films of the Second World War to the New Wave and the 'Swinging London' films of the Sixties * the representation of marginalised communities in films such as Trainspotting and The Full Monty * the evolution of social realism from Saturday Night, Sunday Morning to Nil By Mouth * changing approaches to Northern Ireland and the Troubles in films like The Long Good Friday and Alan Clarke's Elephant * contemporary 'art' and 'quality' cinema, from heritage drama to the work of Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Terence Davies and Patrick Keiller.

Author : Sarah Street
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135253349

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British National Cinema by Sarah Street Pdf

The first substantial overview of the British film industry with emphasis on its genres, stars, and socioeconomic context, British National Cinema by Sarah Street is an important title in Routledge's new National Cinemas series. British National Cinema synthesizes years of scholarship on British film while incorporating the author' fresh perspective and research. Street divides the study of British cinema into four sections: the relation between the film industry and government; specific film genres; movie stars; and experimental cinema. In addition, this beautifully illustrated volume includes over thirty stills from every sphere of British cinema. British National Cinema will be of great interest to film students and theorists as well as the general reader interested in the fascinating scope of British film.

Author : Claire Monk,Amy Sargeant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136366499

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British Historical Cinema by Claire Monk,Amy Sargeant Pdf

Films recreating or addressing 'the past' - recent or distant, actual or imagined - have been a mainstay of British cinema since the silent era. From Elizabeth to Carry On Up The Khyber, and from the heritage-film debate to issues of authenticity and questions of genre, British Historical Cinema explores the ways in which British films have represented the past on screen, the issues they raise and the debates they have provoked. Discussing films from biopics to literary adaptations, and from depictions of Britain's colonial past to the re-imagining of recent decades in retro films such as Velvet Goldmine, a range of contributors ask whose history is being represented, from whose perspective, and why.

Author : Roy Armes
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003298002

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A Critical History of the British Cinema by Roy Armes Pdf

This comprehensive survey probes the strengths and shortcomings of a national output conditioned by a love-hate relationship with Hollywood.

Author : Amy Sargeant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838714765

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British Cinema by Amy Sargeant Pdf

Although new writing and research on British cinema has burgeoned over the last fifteen years, there has been a continued lack of single-authored books providing a coherent overview to this fascinating and elusive national cinema. Amy Sargeant's personal and entertaining history of British cinema aims to fill this gap. With its insightful decade-by-decade analysis, British Cinema is brought alive for a new generation of British cinema students and the general reader alike. Sargeant challenges Rachel Low's premise 'that few of the films made in England during the twenties were any good' by covering subjects as diverse as the art of intertitling, the narrative complexities of Shooting Stars and Brunel's burlesques. Sargeant goes onto examine among other things, the differing acting styles of Dietrich and Donat in the seminal Knight Without Armour to early promotional campaigns in the 1930s, whereas subjects ranging from product endorsement by stars to the character of the suburban wife are covered in the 1940s. The 1950s includes topics such as the effect of post-war government intervention, to Free Cinema and Lindsay Anderson's 'infuriating lapses of rigour', together with a much-needed overview of Michael Balcon's contribution to British cinema. For Sargeant, the 1960s provides an overview of the tentative relationship between film and advertising and the rise of young Turks such as Tony Richardson, Ken Loach, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg.

Author : Mr Jonathan Gems,Mr Vinod Mahindru
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1999842200

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Who Killed British Cinema? by Mr Jonathan Gems,Mr Vinod Mahindru Pdf

Until 1970, Britain had the second biggest film industry in the world. Studios like the Rank Organisation, Associated British Picture Corporation, British Lion and Anglo-Amalgamated made and released more than fifty films per year. British Cinema was thriving and selling its unique product globally. There were countless opportunities for film makers. Tens of thousands worked in British Films. Today we have not one single British movie studio and 98% of the films in our cinemas are made by foreign entities. Every major European country has an indigenous movie culture. What happened to ours? Who killed it? And how can we get it back?

Author : Alan Burton,Steve Chibnall
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810880269

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Historical Dictionary of British Cinema by Alan Burton,Steve Chibnall Pdf

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 : Laurie N. Ede
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857711090

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British Film Design by Laurie N. Ede Pdf

"British Film Design" is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema: "Dr. No's Hideaway", the buffet of "Brief Encounter", Vera Drake's parlour, "Hogwarts School"...and a thousand other visions of British films. This book is also about the people who have created those visions. The physical environments of films are made by Production Designers/Art Directors. Their efforts have tended to go unnoticed by cinema audiences. "British Film Design" offers the first comprehensive historical survey of British art direction. It takes a chronological journey through British film design, starting with the efforts of the film 'primitives' of the silent era and ending with the modern day purveyors of part built/part computer generated 'blended design'. Certain themes recur en route. These include British cinema's obsession with realism; the Production Designer's continual struggle for recognition; influence from European artists and the benefits - and perils - of American finance. The book succeeds in expressing the joy of looking at films from inside out; seeing beyond the stars to recognise sets as silent players in the action.

Author : Ian MacKillop,Neil Sinyard
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0719064899

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British Cinema in the 1950's by Ian MacKillop,Neil Sinyard Pdf

Covering a variety of genres, such as war films and women's pictures, as well as social issues which affect film-making, this is a re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film industry.

Author : Rachael Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136206139

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The History of British Film (Volume 3) by Rachael Low Pdf

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.