British Film Institute Film Classics
Author: Rob White
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9781579583286
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The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History
Author: I.Q. Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-01-12
Total Pages: 969
ISBN-13: 131539216X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 39 chapters The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History 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. Whereas most histories of British cinema focus on directors, stars, genres and themes, this Companion explores the forces enabling and constraining the films’ production, distribution, exhibition, and reception contexts from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors provide a wealth of empirical and archive-based scholarship that draws on insider perspectives of key film institutions and illuminates aspects of British film culture that have been neglected or marginalized, such as the watch committee system, the Eady Levy, the rise of the multiplex and film festivals. It also places emphasis on areas where scholarship has either been especially productive and influential, such as in early and silent cinema, or promoted new approaches, such as audience and memory studies.
The Sounds of the Silents in Britain
Author: Julie Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0199797544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly cinemas were noisy places with pianos, organs, ensembles of all varieties and sometimes full orchestras accompanied films. Britain, a key cultural player in the entertainment world both at the time and now, has a different history than the US of musical cultures and film production.
Sound for Film and Television
Author: Tomlinson Holman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780240804538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHolman covers the broad field of sound accompanying pictures, from the basics through recording, editing and mixing for theatrical films, documentaries and television shows. In each area, theory is followed by practical sections.
British Film Catalogue
Author: Denis Gifford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 8374
ISBN-13: 1317740629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2001.The standard work on its subject, this resource includes every traceable British entertainment film from the inception of the "silent cinema" to the present day. Now, this new edition includes a wholly original second volume devoted to non-fiction and documentary film--an area in which the British film industry has particularly excelled. All entries throughout this third edition have been revised, and coverage has been extended through 1994.Together, these two volumes provide a unique, authoritative source of information for historians, archivists, librarians, and film scholars.
Friese-Greene
Author: Ray Allister
Publisher:
Published: 2023-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781913649081
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Author: Denis Gifford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 1120
ISBN-13: 1317837029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Silent Film Sound
Author: Rick Altman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780231116633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSilent films were, of course, never silent at all. However, the sound that used to accompany the screen picture in the early days of cinema has been neglected as an area of study. Altman explores the various musical, narrative, and even synchronized sound systems that enriched cinema before Jolson spoke.
The Speed of Sound
Author: Scott Eyman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1997-03-13
Total Pages: 695
ISBN-13: 143910428X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to ‘talkies’ transformed Hollywood. It was the end of an era. It was a turbulent, colorful, and altogether remarkable period, four short years in which America’s most popular industry reinvented itself. Here is the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies, that moment when movies were totally transformed and the American public cemented its love affair with Hollywood. As Scott Eyman demonstrates in his fascinating account of this exciting era, it was a time when fortunes, careers, and lives were made and lost, when the American film industry came fully into its own. In this mixture of cultural and social history that is both scholarly and vastly entertaining, Eyman dispels the myths and gives us the missing chapter in the history of Hollywood, the ribbon of dreams by which America conquered the world.
British Popular Films 1929-1939
Author: Stephen Shafer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1134988362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShafer's study challenges the conventional historical assumption that British feature films during the Thirties were mostly oriented to the middle-class. Instead, he makes the critical distinction between films intended for West End and international circulation and those intended primarily for domestic, working-class audiences. Far from being alientated by a 'middle-class institution', working men and women flocked to see pictures featuring such music-hall luminaries as Gracie Fields and George Formby.
