Colour Films In Britain

Author : Sarah Street
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715151

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Colour Films in Britain by Sarah Street Pdf

How did the coming of colour change the British film industry? Unlike sound, the arrival of colour did not revolutionise the industry overnight. For British film-makers and enthusiasts, colour was a controversial topic. While it was greeted by some as an exciting development – with scope for developing a uniquely British aesthetic – others were deeply concerned. How would audiences accustomed to seeing black-and-white films – which were commonly regarded as being superior to their garish colour counterparts – react? Yet despite this initial trepidation, colour captivated many British inventors and film-makers. Using different colour processes, these innovators produced films that demonstrated remarkable experimentation and quality. Sarah Street's illuminating study is the first to trace the history of colour in British cinema, and analyses the use of colour in a range of films, both fiction and non-fiction, including The Open Road, The Glorious Adventure, This is Colour, Blithe Spirit, This Happy Breed, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffmann and Moulin Rouge. Beautifully illustrated with full colour film stills, this important study provides fascinating insights into the complex process whereby the challenges and opportunities of new technologies are negotiated within creative practice. The book also includes a Technical Appendix by Simon Brown (Kingston University, UK), which provides further details of the range of colour processes used by British film-makers.

Author : Sarah Street,Paul Frith,Keith M. Johnston,Carolyn Rickards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Color cinematography
ISBN : 1911239740

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Colour Films in Britain by Sarah Street,Paul Frith,Keith M. Johnston,Carolyn Rickards Pdf

"The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey of its adoption in British Film and considers its lasting significance as one of the most important technical innovations in film history. Through original archival research and interviews with key figures within the industry, the authors examine the role of Eastmancolor in relation to key areas of British cinema since the 1950s; including its economic and structural histories, different studio and industrial strategies, and the wider aesthetic changes that took place with the mass adoption of colour. Their analysis of British cinema through the lens of colour produces new interpretations of key British film genres including social realism, historical and costume drama, science fiction, horror, crime, documentary and even sex films. They explore how colour communicated meaning in films ranging from the Carry On series to Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), from Lawrence of Arabia (1962) to My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), and from Goldfinger (1964) to Dance with a Stranger (1984), and in the work of key directors and cinematographers of both popular and art cinema including Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Ridley Scott, Peter Greenaway and Chris Menges"--

Author : Sarah Street,Keith M. Johnston,Paul Frith,Carolyn Rickards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911239581

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Colour Films in Britain by Sarah Street,Keith M. Johnston,Paul Frith,Carolyn Rickards Pdf

Eastmancolor and branding -- Institutions and Eastmancolor -- Comedy and satire -- Social realism and contemporary drama -- The colour of crime -- The colour fantastic : fantasy, horror and science fiction -- Historical and costume films -- Musicals, pop music and the concert film -- Colour and collaboration -- Art, experimental/avant grade practices -- Amateur colour filmmaking -- Short, documentary and advertising films -- Sex and Eastmancolor -- Cultures and practices of preservation and restoration.

Author : Simon Brown,Sarah Street,Elizabeth Watkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838714802

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British Colour Cinema by Simon Brown,Sarah Street,Elizabeth Watkins Pdf

Created as a companion volume to a major history of colour in British Cinema (also by Sarah Street), British Colour Cinema is a book based on a series of unique interviews conducted by Sarah Street and Elizabeth I Watkins with practitioners who worked in the UK with Technicolor and/or Eastmancolor during the 1930s-1950s.

Author : Samantha Lay
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231501613

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British Social Realism by Samantha Lay Pdf

British Social Realism details and explores the rich tradition of social realism in British cinema from its beginnings in the documentary movement of the 1930s to its more stylistically eclectic and generically hybrid contemporary forms. Samantha Lay examines the movements, moments and cycles of British social realist texts through a detailed consideration of practice, politics, form, style and content, using case studies of key texts including Listen to Britain, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Letter to Brezhnev, and Nil by Mouth. In discussing the work of many prominent realist filmmakers, the book considers the challenges for social realist film practice and production in Britain, now and in the future.

Author : Frank Gray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030175054

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The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film by Frank Gray Pdf

This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are known collectively as the ‘Brighton School’ and are positioned as being at the forefront of Britain’s contribution to the birth of film. The book focuses on the years 1896 to 1903, as it was during this short period that film emerged as a new technology, a new enterprise and a new form of entertainment. Beginning with a historiography of the Brighton School, the study goes on to examine the arrival of the first 35mm films in Britain, the first film exhibitions in Brighton and the first projection of film in Brighton. Both Smith and Williamson’s work features a progression from the production of single shot unedited films to multi-shot edited films. Their subject matter was inspired by a knowledge of contemporary pantomime, humour, literature, theatre, mesmerism, the magic lantern and current affairs and their practices were underpinned by active involvement in the new film trade. Through the exploration of how these filmmakers cultivated a new way of understanding film and its commercial potential, this book establishes them as key figures in the development of British film culture.

Author : Rachael Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136206894

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The History of British Film (Volume 7) 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.

Author : Paul Coates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Color cinematography
ISBN : 183871166X

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Cinema and Colour by Paul Coates Pdf

"A study of the use of color in film, and of the ways in which color has been theorized, both as a concept and specifically in terms of cinema. Paul Coates unpacks the use of color in a diverse range of films such as All that Heaven Allows, The Wizard of Oz, Three Colours and The Lives of Others, and many more."--

Author : Sarah Street,Joshua Yumibe
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231542289

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Chromatic Modernity by Sarah Street,Joshua Yumibe Pdf

The era of silent film, long seen as black and white, has been revealed in recent scholarship as bursting with color. Yet the 1920s remain thought of as a transitional decade between early cinema and the rise of Technicolor—despite the fact that new color technologies used in film, advertising, fashion, and industry reshaped cinema and consumer culture. In Chromatic Modernity, Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe provide a revelatory history of how the use of color in film during the 1920s played a key role in creating a chromatically vibrant culture. Focusing on the final decade of silent film, Street and Yumibe portray the 1920s as a pivotal and profoundly chromatic period of cosmopolitan exchange, collaboration, and experimentation in and around cinema. Chromatic Modernity explores contemporary debates over color’s artistic, scientific, philosophical, and educational significance. It examines a wide range of European and American films, including Opus 1 (1921), L’Inhumaine (1923), Die Nibelungen (1924), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Lodger (1927), Napoléon (1927), and Dracula (1932). A comprehensive, comparative study that situates film among developments in art, color science, and industry, Chromatic Modernity reveals the role of color cinema in forging new ways of looking at and experiencing the modern world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : IOWA:31858033159249

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The British Film Yearbook by Anonim Pdf

Includes section "Who's who in British films and television" (varies)

Author : Mr Jonathan Gems,Mr Vinod Mahindru
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Afua Hirsch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473546899

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Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch Pdf

From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today. You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you're from? We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change. 'The book for our divided and dangerous times' David Olusoga

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015141174

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British Film and Television Yearbook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clive Nwonka,Anamik Saha
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781912685639

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Black Film British Cinema II by Clive Nwonka,Anamik Saha Pdf

The politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred during this period. Black Film British Cinema II considers the politics of blackness in contemporary British cinema and visual practice. This second iteration of Black Film British Cinema, marking over 30 years since the ground-breaking ICA Documents 7 publication in 1988, continues this investigation by offering a crucial contemporary consideration of the textual, institutional, cultural and political shifts that have occurred from this period. It focuses on the practices, values and networks of collaborations that have shaped the development of black film culture and representation. But what is black British film? How do such films, however defined, produce meaning through visual culture, and what are the political, social and aesthetic motivations and effects? How are the new forms of black British film facilitating new modes of representation, authorship and exhibition? Explored in the context of film aesthetics, curatorship, exhibition and arts practice, and the politics of diversity policy, Black Film British Cinema II provides the platform for new scholars, thinkers and practitioners to coalesce on these central questions. It is explicitly interdisciplinary, operating at the intersections of film studies, media and communications, sociology, politics and cultural studies. Through a diverse range of perspectives and theoretical interventions that offer a combination of traditional chapters, long-form essays, shorter think pieces, and critical dialogues, Black Film British Cinema II is a comprehensive, sustained, wide ranging collection that offers new framework for understanding contemporary black film practices and the cultural and creative dimensions that shape the making of blackness and race. Contributors Bidisha, Ashley Clark, Shelley Cobb, James Harvey, Melanie Hoyes, Maryam Jameela, Kara Keeling, Ozlem Koksal, Rabz Lansiquot, Sarita Malik, Richard Martin, So Mayer, Alessandra Raengo, Richard T. Rodríguez, Tess S. Skadegård Thorsen, Natalie Wreyford

Author : John Hill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118482902

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A Companion to British and Irish Cinema by John Hill Pdf

A stimulating overview of the intellectual arguments and critical debates involved in the study of British and Irish cinemas British and Irish film studies have expanded in scope and depth in recent years, prompting a growing number of critical debates on how these cinemas are analysed, contextualized, and understood. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema addresses arguments surrounding film historiography, methods of textual analysis, critical judgments, and the social and economic contexts that are central to the study of these cinemas. Twenty-nine essays from many of the most prominent writers in the field examine how British and Irish cinema have been discussed, the concepts and methods used to interpret and understand British and Irish films, and the defining issues and debates at the heart of British and Irish cinema studies. Offering a broad scope of commentary, the Companion explores historical, cultural and aesthetic questions that encompass over a century of British and Irish film studies—from the early years of the silent era to the present-day. Divided into five sections, the Companion discusses the social and cultural forces shaping British and Irish cinema during different periods, the contexts in which films are produced, distributed and exhibited, the genres and styles that have been adopted by British and Irish films, issues of representation and identity, and debates on concepts of national cinema at a time when ideas of what constitutes both ‘British’ and ‘Irish’ cinema are under question. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema is a valuable and timely resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of film, media, and cultural studies, and for those seeking contemporary commentary on the cinemas of Britain and Ireland.