The British cinema book /
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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| Imprint: | London : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, c2009. |
| Description: | xii, 452 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7728266 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I. Debates and Controversies
- The British Cinema: The Known Cinema?
- British Cinema as National Cinema: Production, Audience and Representation
- They Think Its All Over: British Cinemas US Surrender, A View from 2001
- Paradise Found and Lost: The Course of British Realism
- Lindsay Anderson and the Development of British Art Cinema
- The Wrong Sort of Cinema: Refashioning the Heritage Film Debate
- British Cult Cinema
- Part II. Industry, Genre, Representation
- British Film Censorship
- Exhibition and the Cinema-going Experience
- Action, Spectacle and the Boys Own Tradition in British Cinema
- Traditions of the British Horror Film
- Traditions of British Comedy
- British Cinema and Black Representation
- Exiles and British Cinema
- Where Are Those Buggers?: Aspects of Homosexuality in Mainstream British Cinema
- Part III. British Cinema 18951939
- Before Blackmail: Silent British Cinema
- Big Studio Production in the Pre-Quota Years
- Late Silent Britain
- The British Documentary Film Movement
- British Film and the National Interest, 192739
- A Despicable Tradition? Quota-quickies in the 1930s
- A British Studio System: The Associated British Picture Corporation and the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation in the 1930s
- Low-budget British Films in the 1930s
- Part IV. British Cinema from the Second World War to the 70s
- The Heart of Britain: British Cinema at War
- Melodrama and Femininity in Second World War British Cinema
- No Place Like Home: Powell, Pressburger Utopia
- Some Lines of Inquiry into Post-war British Crimes
- A Song and Dance at the Local: Thoughts on Ealing
- Methodism versus the Market-place: The Rank Organisation and British Cinema
- Bonnie Prince Charlie Revisited: British Costume Film in the 1950s
- Twilight women of 1950s British Cinema
- Male Stars, Masculinity and British Cinema, 194560
- Beyond the New Wave: Realism in British Cinema, 195963
- Women and 60s British Cinema: The Development of the Darling Girl
- Strange Days: British Cinema in the Late 1960s
- Tutte e marchio!: Excess, Masquerade and Performativity in 70s Cinema
- Part V. Contemporary British Cinema
- New Romanticism and the British Avant-Garde Film in the Early 80s
- Internal Decolonisation? British Cinema in the Celtic Fringe
- Citylife: Urban Fairy-tales in Late 90s British Cinema
- The More Things Change . . . British Cinema in the 90s
- Travels in Ladland: The British Gangster Film Cycle, 19982001
- Asian British Cinema since the 1990s
- Bright Hopes, Dark Dreams: A Guide to New British Cinema
- Not Flagwaving But Flagdrowning, or Postcards from Post-Britain
- Postscript: A Short History of British Cinema
- Index
