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The British cinema book / edited by Robert Murphy.

Contributor(s): Murphy, Robert, 1947-Publication details: London : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, c2009. Edition: 3rd edDescription: xii, 452 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781844572762 (hbk.) :; 1844572765 (hbk.) :; 9781844572755 (pbk.) :; 1844572757 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- HistoryDDC classification: 791.430941

Contents:

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 --

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Item type	Current library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item reservations
Book-Circulating	Fischer Hall Library Main shelves	PN1993.5. G7B67 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	2023-11-02	B001256

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Previous ed.: 2001.

Formerly CIP. Uk

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 --