The British cinema book /
The British cinema book /
edited by Robert Murphy.
- 3rd ed.
- London : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, c2009.
- xii, 452 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Previous ed.: 2001. Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Robert Murphy --
pt. 1 Debates and controversies --
The British cinema: the known cinema? / Alan Lovell --
British cinema as national cinema: production, audience and representation / John Hill --
They think it's all over: British cinema's US surrender, a view from 2001 / Nick James --
Paradise found and lost: the course of British realism / Geoff Brown --
Lindsay Anderson and the development of British art cinema / Erik Hedling --
The wrong sort of cinema: refashioning the heritage film debate / Sheldon Hall --
British cult cinema / Justin Smith --
British film censorship / Jeffrey Richards and James C. Robertson --
Exhibition and the cinema-going experience / Allen Eyles --
Action, spectacle and the Boy's own tradition in British cinema / James Chapman --
Traditions of the British horror film / Ian Conrich --
Traditions of British comedy / Richard Dacre --
British cinema and black representation / Jim Pines --
Exiles and British cinema / Kevin Gough-Yates --
Where are those buggers?: Aspects of homosexuality in mainstream British cinema / Stella Bruzzi --
Before blackmail: silent British cinema / Charles Barr --
Big studio production in the pre-quota years / Jon Burrows --
Late silent Britain / Christine Gledhill --
The British documentary film movement / Ian Aitken --
British film and the national interest, 1927-39 / Sarah Street --
A despicable tradition? Quota-quickies in the 1930s / Lawrence Napper --
A British studio system: the Associated British Picture Corporation and the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation in the 1930s / Tom Ryall --
Low-budget British films in the 1930s / Linda Wood --
The heart of Britain: British cinema at war / Robert Murphy --
Melodrama and femininity in Second World War British cinema / Marcia Landy --
No place like home: Powell, Pressburger Utopia / Andrew Moor --
Some lines of inquiry into post-war British crimes / Raymond Durgnat --
A song and dance at the local: thoughts on ealing / Tim Pulleine --
Methodism versus the market-place: the rank organisation and British cinema / Vincent Porter --
Bonnie Prince Charlie revisited: British costume film in the 1950s / Sue Harper --
'Twilight women' of 1950s British cinema / Melanie Williams --
Male stars, masculinity and British cinema, 1945-60 / Andrew Spicer --
Beyond the new wave: realism in British cinema, 1959-63 / Peter Hutchings --
Women and 60s British cinema: the development of the 'Darling' girl / Christine Geraghty --
Strange days: British cinema in the late 1960s / Robert Murphy --
'Tutte e marchio!': excess, masquerade and performativity in 70s cinema / Pamela Church Gibson and Andrew Hill --
'New romanticism' and the British avant-garde film in the early 80s / Michael O'Pray --
Internal decolonisation? British cinema in the Celtic fringe / Martin McLoone --
Citylife: urban fairy-tales in late 90s British cinema / Robert Murphy --
The more things change ... British cinema in the 90s / Brian McFarlane --
Travels in Ladland: the British gangster film cycle, 1998-2001 / Steve Chibnall --
Asian British cinema since the 1990s / Barbara Korte and Claudia Sternberg --
Bright hopes, dark dreams: a guide to new British cinema / Robert Murphy --
Not flagwaving but flagdrowning, or postcards from post-Britain / William Brown --
Postscript: a short history of British cinema / Robert Murphy --
9781844572762 (hbk.) : £60.00 1844572765 (hbk.) : £60.00 9781844572755 (pbk.) : £18.99 1844572757 (pbk.) : £18.99
GBA8D7549 bnb
014845953 Uk
Motion pictures--History.--Great Britain
791.430941
Previous ed.: 2001. Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Robert Murphy --
pt. 1 Debates and controversies --
The British cinema: the known cinema? / Alan Lovell --
British cinema as national cinema: production, audience and representation / John Hill --
They think it's all over: British cinema's US surrender, a view from 2001 / Nick James --
Paradise found and lost: the course of British realism / Geoff Brown --
Lindsay Anderson and the development of British art cinema / Erik Hedling --
The wrong sort of cinema: refashioning the heritage film debate / Sheldon Hall --
British cult cinema / Justin Smith --
British film censorship / Jeffrey Richards and James C. Robertson --
Exhibition and the cinema-going experience / Allen Eyles --
Action, spectacle and the Boy's own tradition in British cinema / James Chapman --
Traditions of the British horror film / Ian Conrich --
Traditions of British comedy / Richard Dacre --
British cinema and black representation / Jim Pines --
Exiles and British cinema / Kevin Gough-Yates --
Where are those buggers?: Aspects of homosexuality in mainstream British cinema / Stella Bruzzi --
Before blackmail: silent British cinema / Charles Barr --
Big studio production in the pre-quota years / Jon Burrows --
Late silent Britain / Christine Gledhill --
The British documentary film movement / Ian Aitken --
British film and the national interest, 1927-39 / Sarah Street --
A despicable tradition? Quota-quickies in the 1930s / Lawrence Napper --
A British studio system: the Associated British Picture Corporation and the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation in the 1930s / Tom Ryall --
Low-budget British films in the 1930s / Linda Wood --
The heart of Britain: British cinema at war / Robert Murphy --
Melodrama and femininity in Second World War British cinema / Marcia Landy --
No place like home: Powell, Pressburger Utopia / Andrew Moor --
Some lines of inquiry into post-war British crimes / Raymond Durgnat --
A song and dance at the local: thoughts on ealing / Tim Pulleine --
Methodism versus the market-place: the rank organisation and British cinema / Vincent Porter --
Bonnie Prince Charlie revisited: British costume film in the 1950s / Sue Harper --
'Twilight women' of 1950s British cinema / Melanie Williams --
Male stars, masculinity and British cinema, 1945-60 / Andrew Spicer --
Beyond the new wave: realism in British cinema, 1959-63 / Peter Hutchings --
Women and 60s British cinema: the development of the 'Darling' girl / Christine Geraghty --
Strange days: British cinema in the late 1960s / Robert Murphy --
'Tutte e marchio!': excess, masquerade and performativity in 70s cinema / Pamela Church Gibson and Andrew Hill --
'New romanticism' and the British avant-garde film in the early 80s / Michael O'Pray --
Internal decolonisation? British cinema in the Celtic fringe / Martin McLoone --
Citylife: urban fairy-tales in late 90s British cinema / Robert Murphy --
The more things change ... British cinema in the 90s / Brian McFarlane --
Travels in Ladland: the British gangster film cycle, 1998-2001 / Steve Chibnall --
Asian British cinema since the 1990s / Barbara Korte and Claudia Sternberg --
Bright hopes, dark dreams: a guide to new British cinema / Robert Murphy --
Not flagwaving but flagdrowning, or postcards from post-Britain / William Brown --
Postscript: a short history of British cinema / Robert Murphy --
9781844572762 (hbk.) : £60.00 1844572765 (hbk.) : £60.00 9781844572755 (pbk.) : £18.99 1844572757 (pbk.) : £18.99
GBA8D7549 bnb
014845953 Uk
Motion pictures--History.--Great Britain
791.430941