The Metropolitan Police And The British Film Industry 1919 1956

Author : Alex Rock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350295094

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The Metropolitan Police and the British Film Industry, 1919-1956 by Alex Rock Pdf

This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations. Beginning with the culture of suppression during the interwar period, when retired police inspectors were threatened with loss of pension should they become involved with the film industry, the relationship shifted when a forgotten pioneer of public relations, Percy Fearnley, was appointed to the role of Metropolitan Police Public Information Officer in 1945. Fearnley was the first-ever journalist to take up this role and, through him, the Metropolitan Police embarked on a series of collaborations with the highest echelons of postwar British cinema, including J. Arthur Rank, Ealing Studios and Gainsborough Studios. Using newly-declassified internal Metropolitan Police and Home Office correspondence, Alexander Charles Rock tells the story of the Metropolitan Police's project to manipulate the British film industry into producing propaganda under the guise of mainstream entertainment cinema. In doing so he offers a radical re-reading of the context of production of a number of canonical British films such as The Blue Lamp (1950), I Believe In You (1952) and Street Corner (1953).

Author : Alex Rock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350295100

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The Metropolitan Police and the British Film Industry, 1919-1956 by Alex Rock Pdf

This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations. Beginning with the culture of suppression during the interwar period, when retired police inspectors were threatened with loss of pension should they become involved with the film industry, the relationship shifted when a forgotten pioneer of public relations, Percy Fearnley, was appointed to the role of Metropolitan Police Public Information Officer in 1945. Fearnley was the first-ever journalist to take up this role and, through him, the Metropolitan Police embarked on a series of collaborations with the highest echelons of postwar British cinema, including J. Arthur Rank, Ealing Studios and Gainsborough Studios. Using newly-declassified internal Metropolitan Police and Home Office correspondence, Alexander Charles Rock tells the story of the Metropolitan Police's project to manipulate the British film industry into producing propaganda under the guise of mainstream entertainment cinema. In doing so he offers a radical re-reading of the context of production of a number of canonical British films such as The Blue Lamp (1950), I Believe In You (1952) and Street Corner (1953).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015141190

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British Film and Television Yearbook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Noble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015066321434

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British Film and Television Year Book by Peter Noble Pdf

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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : NYPL:33433085591786

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British Film and Television Year Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3472 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Biography
ISBN : UCAL:B3452811

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Who's who by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063681097

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The Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0851703240

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Sixties British Cinema by Robert Murphy Pdf

British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy's Sixties British Cinema is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late '50s and early '60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confidence and vitality: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, and A Taste of Honey are only the better known titles. Sixties British Cinema revalues key genres of the period--horror, crime, and comedy--and takes a fresh look at the "swinging London" films, finding disturbing undertones that reflect the cultural changes of the decade. Now that our cinematic past is constantly recycled on television, Murphy's informative, engaging, and perceptive review of these films and their cultural and industrial context offers an invaluable guide to this neglected era of British cinema. British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy's Sixties British Cinema is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late '50s and early '60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confidence and vitality: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, and A Taste of Honey are only the better known titles. Sixties British Cinema revalues key genres of the period--horror, crime, and comedy--and takes a fresh look at the "swinging London" films, finding disturbing undertones that reflect the cultural changes of the decade. Now that our cinematic past is constantly recycled on television, Murphy's informative, engaging, and perceptive review of these films and their cultural and industrial context offers an invaluable guide to this neglected era of British cinema.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Baronetage
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013463323

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Upper Ten Thousand by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015012790427

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The New Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Street,Keith M. Johnston,Paul Frith,Carolyn Rickards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Brian McFarlane
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015063313327

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The Encyclopedia of British Film by Brian McFarlane Pdf

Fully updated edition of a comprehensive history of the British film industry from its inception to the present day, with minute listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema. An invaluable addition to the reference shelf of anyone with an interest in British cinema.Brian McFarlane is professor of film history at Monash University in Australia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015085542259

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The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia: knowledge in depth. 19 v by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1800 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0946653585

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The International Who's Who by Anonim Pdf

Author : Neil Archer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350104488

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Cinema and Brexit by Neil Archer Pdf

Neil Archer's original study makes a timely and politically-engaged intervention in debates about national cinema and national identity. Structured around key examples of 'culturally English cinema' in the years up to and following the UK's 2016 vote to leave the European Union, Cinema and Brexit looks to make sense of the peculiarities and paradoxes marking this era of filmmaking. At the same time as providing a contextual and analytical reading of 21st century filmmaking in Britain, Archer raises critical questions about popular national cinema, and how Brexit has cast both light and shadow over this body of films. Central to Archer's argument is the idea that Brexit represents not just a critical moment in how we will understand future film production, but also in how we will understand production of the recent past. Using as a point of departure the London Olympics opening ceremony of 2012, Cinema and Brexit considers the tensions inherent in a wide range of films, including Skyfall (2012), Dunkirk (2017), Their Finest (2017), Darkest Hour (2017), The Crown (Netflix, 2016), Paddington (2014), Paddington 2 (2017), Never Let Me Go (2011), Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016), The Trip (2010), The Inbetweeners Movie (2011), Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007), The World's End (2013), Sightseers (2012), One Day (2011), Attack the Block (2011), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) and The Kid Who Would be King (2019). Archer examines the complex national narratives and representations these films expound, situating his analyses within the broader commercial contexts of film production beyond Hollywood, highlighting the negotiations or contradictions at play between the industrial imperatives of contemporary films and the varied circumstances in which they are made. Considering some of the ways a popular and globally-minded English cinema is finding means to work alongside and through the contexts of Brexit, he questions what are the stakes for, and possibilities of, a global 'culturally English cinema' in 2019 and beyond.