An Autobiography of British Cinema
Author: Brian McFarlane
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 678
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Author: Brian McFarlane
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 678
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Autobiography of British Cinema tell the story of British film by those who made it.
Author: Steve Chibnall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-07-25
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 183871863X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to provide a thorough examination of the British 'B' movie, from the war years to the 1960s. The authors draw on archival research, contemporary trade papers and interviews with key 'B' filmmakers to map the 'B' movie phenomenon both as artefact and as industry product, and as a reflection on their times.
Author: Brian McFarlane
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781904764380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh, concise but wide-ranging introduction to and overview of British and Irish cinema, this volume contains 24 essays, each on a separate seminal film from the region. Films under discussion include 'Pink String and Sealing Wax', 'Room at the Top', 'The Italian Job', 'Orlando', and 'Sweet Sixteen'.
Author: Ian Christie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019-12-09
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 022661011X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: I.Q. Hunter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-01-12
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1315392178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book 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.
Author: Roy Armes
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive survey probes the strengths and shortcomings of a national output conditioned by a love-hate relationship with Hollywood.
Author: Jeffrey Richards
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2001-01-12
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781860646287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA group of film historians chart a map of 1930s British cinema. They reassess the films, stars, genres, and directors omitted from accounts of the decade, and they evaluate its forgotten and recently discovered films. The book includes assessments of the British shocker and the British musical, popular 1930s genres, and views of cinema and national identity.
Author: Maurice Yacowar
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780814334942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1977 and long out of print, Maurice Yacowar's Hitchcock's British Films was the first volume devoted solely to the twenty-three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his native England before he came to the United States. As such, it was the first book to challenge the assumption that Hitchcock's "mature" period in Hollywood, from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, represented the director's best work. In this traditional auteurist examination of Hitchcock's early work, author Maurice Yacowar considers Hitchcock's British films in chronological order, reads the composition of individual shots and scenes in each, and pays special attention to the films' verbal effects. Yacowar's readings remain compelling more than thirty years after they were written, and some-on Downhill, Champagne, and Waltzes from Vienna-are among the few extended interpretations of these films that exist. Alongside important works such as Murder , the first The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent, The Lady Vanishes, and Blackmail, readers will appreciate Yacowar's equal attention to lesser-known films like The Pleasure Garden, The Ring, and The Manxman. Yacowar dissects Hitchcock's precise staging and technical production to draw out ethical themes and metaphysical meanings of each film, while keeping a close eye on the source material, such as novels and plays, that Hitchcock used as the inspiration for many of his screenplays. Yacowar concludes with an overview of Hitchcock as auteur and an appendix identifying the director's appearances in these films. A foreword by Barry Keith Grant and a preface to the second edition from Yacowar complete this comprehensive volume. Anyone interested in Hitchcock, classic British cinema, or the history of film will appreciate Yacowar's accessible and often witty exploration of the director's early work.
Author: Amy Sargeant
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-07-25
Total Pages: 687
ISBN-13: 1838714758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough 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: H. Mark Glancy
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780755698080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor nearly 100 years, Hollywood has provided not only the majority, but also the most popular of films shown on British Screens. For many Britons, Hollywood films are not considered to be foreign films. Whether seen in the cinema or on television, they are regarded as normal screen fare and a part of everyday life. Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain is the first book to take a wide ranging view of this phenomenon and to explore the impact of American films on their audiences and the reception of them by these audiences from early days to the present. Mark Glancy investigates Hollywoo.