The British Cinema Book
Author: Robert Murphy
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
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British National Cinema
Author: Sarah Street
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1134917872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first substantial overview of the British film industry with emphasis on its genres, stars, and socioeconomic context, British National Cinema by Sarah Street is an important title in Routledge's new National Cinemas series. British National Cinema synthesizes years of scholarship on British film while incorporating the author' fresh perspective and research. Street divides the study of British cinema into four sections: the relation between the film industry and government; specific film genres; movie stars; and experimental cinema. In addition, this beautifully illustrated volume includes over thirty stills from every sphere of British cinema. British National Cinema will be of great interest to film students and theorists as well as the general reader interested in the fascinating scope of British film.
Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema
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.
Studying British Cinema
Author: John Fitzgerald
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work covers a diverse range of films, from populist and mainstream cinema through to more esoteric arthouse fare. It considers the institutional and financial factors around UK film production as well as assessing issues such as genre, representation, authorship and political contexts.
Black Film British Cinema II
Author: Clive Nwonka
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2021-03-02
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1912685639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred during this period. Black Film British Cinema II considers the politics of blackness in contemporary British cinema and visual practice. This second iteration of Black Film British Cinema, marking over 30 years since the ground-breaking ICA Documents 7 publication in 1988, continues this investigation by offering a crucial contemporary consideration of the textual, institutional, cultural and political shifts that have occurred from this period. It focuses on the practices, values and networks of collaborations that have shaped the development of black film culture and representation. But what is black British film? How do such films, however defined, produce meaning through visual culture, and what are the political, social and aesthetic motivations and effects? How are the new forms of black British film facilitating new modes of representation, authorship and exhibition? Explored in the context of film aesthetics, curatorship, exhibition and arts practice, and the politics of diversity policy, Black Film British Cinema II provides the platform for new scholars, thinkers and practitioners to coalesce on these central questions. It is explicitly interdisciplinary, operating at the intersections of film studies, media and communications, sociology, politics and cultural studies. Through a diverse range of perspectives and theoretical interventions that offer a combination of traditional chapters, long-form essays, shorter think pieces, and critical dialogues, Black Film British Cinema II is a comprehensive, sustained, wide ranging collection that offers new framework for understanding contemporary black film practices and the cultural and creative dimensions that shape the making of blackness and race. Contributors Bidisha, Ashley Clark, Shelley Cobb, James Harvey, Melanie Hoyes, Maryam Jameela, Kara Keeling, Ozlem Koksal, Rabz Lansiquot, Sarita Malik, Richard Martin, So Mayer, Alessandra Raengo, Richard T. Rodríguez, Tess S. Skadegård Thorsen, Natalie Wreyford
British Cinema, Past and Present
Author: Justine Ashby
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0415220610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Cinema brings together leading international scholars to investigate the rich diversity of Britain's film production, and explore the different cultural traditions which have shaped Britain's national identity onscreen.
British Crime Cinema
Author: Steve Chibnall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-27
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1134702698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first substantial study of British cinema's most neglected genre. Bringing together original work from some of the leading writers on British popular film, this book includes interviews with key directors Mike Hodges (Get Carter) and Donald Cammel (Performance). It discusses an abundance of films including: * acclaimed recent crime films such as Shallow Grave, Shopping, and Face. * early classics like They Made Me A Fugitive * acknowledged classics such as Brighton Rock and The Long Good Friday * 50s seminal works including The Lavender Hill Mob and The Ladykillers.
The Cinema Book
Author: Pam Cook
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9781838710484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition of 'The Cinema Book' looks at the recent developments in the field of cinema studies whilst retaining the historical coverage and depth of the original.
Masculinity in British Cinema, 1990-2010
Author: Sarah Godfrey
Publisher: EUP
Published: 2021-12-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474414142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores British cinematic representations of masculinity.
Studying the British Crime Film
Author: Paul Elliott
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1800347391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver since its inception, British cinema has been obsessed with crime and the criminal. One of the first narrative films to be produced in Britain, the Hepworth's 1905 short Rescued by Rover, was a fast-paced, quick-edited tale of abduction and kidnap, and the first British sound film, Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1930), centered on murder and criminal guilt. For a genre seemingly so important to the British cinematic character, there is little direct theoretical or historical work focused on it. The Britain of British cinema is often written about in terms of national history, ethnic diversity, or cultural tradition, yet very rarely in terms of its criminal tendencies and dark underbelly. This volume assumes that, to know how British cinema truly works, it is necessary to pull back the veneer of the costume piece, the historical drama, and the rom-com and glimpse at what is underneath. For every Brief Encounter (1945) there is a Brighton Rock (2010), for every Notting Hill (1999) there is a Long Good Friday (1980).
