An Autobiography Of British Cinema

Author : Brian McFarlane
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Autobiography of British Cinema written by Brian McFarlane and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Autobiography of British Cinema tell the story of British film by those who made it.

Author : Steve Chibnall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183871863X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British 'B' Film written by Steve Chibnall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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
ISBN 13 : 9781904764380
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Britain and Ireland written by Brian McFarlane and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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 : I.Q. Hunter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315392178
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History written by I.Q. Hunter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 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.

Author : Ian Christie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022661011X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema written by Ian Christie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 : Benjamin Halligan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719063510
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Reeves written by Benjamin Halligan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Reeves died at age 25 in 1969, between the end of Swinging London and the collapse of the British film industry--an apt candidate to represent all that could have been. This critical biography claims Reeves as the great, lost auteur of British cinema and traces his conception of film back to his childhood and formative experiences. Benjamin Halligan examines Reeves' films in the context of the times, citing The Sorcerers and Witchfinder General as foreshadowing and critiquing the psychedelic and revolutionary zeitgeist. Reeves's earlier work on the fringes of the freewheeling European exploitation cinema is also covered, with particularly emphasis on his Revenge of the Blood Beast.

Author : Maurice Yacowar
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814334942
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock's British Films written by Maurice Yacowar and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally 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 : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781860646287
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown 1930s written by Jeffrey Richards and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2001-01-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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 : Roy Armes
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical History of the British Cinema written by Roy Armes and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey probes the strengths and shortcomings of a national output conditioned by a love-hate relationship with Hollywood.

Author : Brian McFarlane
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526111969
Total Pages : 2076 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of British Film written by Brian McFarlane and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 2076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With well over 6,300 articles, including over 500 new entries, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is a fully updated invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day, with detailed listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema. Brian McFarlane's meticulously researched guide is the definitive companion for anyone interested in the world of film. Previous editions have sold many thousands of copies and this fourth edition will be an essential work of reference for enthusiasts interested in the history of British cinema, and for universities and libraries.