The Metropolitan Police And The British Film Industry 1919 1956

Author : Alex Rock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350295094
Total Pages : 279 pages
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Download or read book The Metropolitan Police and the British Film Industry, 1919-1956 written by Alex Rock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations. Beginning with the culture of suppression during the interwar period, when retired police inspectors were threatened with loss of pension should they become involved with the film industry, the relationship shifted when a forgotten pioneer of public relations, Percy Fearnley, was appointed to the role of Metropolitan Police Public Information Officer in 1945. Fearnley was the first-ever journalist to take up this role and, through him, the Metropolitan Police embarked on a series of collaborations with the highest echelons of postwar British cinema, including J. Arthur Rank, Ealing Studios and Gainsborough Studios. Using newly-declassified internal Metropolitan Police and Home Office correspondence, Alexander Charles Rock tells the story of the Metropolitan Police's project to manipulate the British film industry into producing propaganda under the guise of mainstream entertainment cinema. In doing so he offers a radical re-reading of the context of production of a number of canonical British films such as The Blue Lamp (1950), I Believe In You (1952) and Street Corner (1953).

Author : Alex Rock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350295108
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metropolitan Police and the British Film Industry, 1919-1956 written by Alex Rock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations. Beginning with the culture of suppression during the interwar period, when retired police inspectors were threatened with loss of pension should they become involved with the film industry, the relationship shifted when a forgotten pioneer of public relations, Percy Fearnley, was appointed to the role of Metropolitan Police Public Information Officer in 1945. Fearnley was the first-ever journalist to take up this role and, through him, the Metropolitan Police embarked on a series of collaborations with the highest echelons of postwar British cinema, including J. Arthur Rank, Ealing Studios and Gainsborough Studios. Using newly-declassified internal Metropolitan Police and Home Office correspondence, Alexander Charles Rock tells the story of the Metropolitan Police's project to manipulate the British film industry into producing propaganda under the guise of mainstream entertainment cinema. In doing so he offers a radical re-reading of the context of production of a number of canonical British films such as The Blue Lamp (1950), I Believe In You (1952) and Street Corner (1953).

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Total Pages : 546 pages
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Download or read book British Film and Television Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Noble
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Film and Television Year Book written by Peter Noble and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Who's who in British films and television" (varies)

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Total Pages : 488 pages
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Download or read book British Film and Television Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : British Film Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780851703244
Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book Sixties British Cinema written by Robert Murphy and published by British Film Institute. This book was released on 1992-04-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy's Sixties British Cinema is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late '50s and early '60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confidence and vitality: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, and A Taste of Honey are only the better known titles. Sixties British Cinema revalues key genres of the period--horror, crime, and comedy--and takes a fresh look at the "swinging London" films, finding disturbing undertones that reflect the cultural changes of the decade. Now that our cinematic past is constantly recycled on television, Murphy's informative, engaging, and perceptive review of these films and their cultural and industrial context offers an invaluable guide to this neglected era of British cinema. British films of the 1960s are undervalued. Their search for realism has often been dismissed as drabness and their more frivolous efforts can now appear just empty-headed. Robert Murphy's Sixties British Cinema is the first study to challenge this view. He shows that the realist tradition of the late '50s and early '60s was anything but dreary and depressing, and gave birth to a clutch of films remarkable for their confidence and vitality: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, and A Taste of Honey are only the better known titles. Sixties British Cinema revalues key genres of the period--horror, crime, and comedy--and takes a fresh look at the "swinging London" films, finding disturbing undertones that reflect the cultural changes of the decade. Now that our cinematic past is constantly recycled on television, Murphy's informative, engaging, and perceptive review of these films and their cultural and industrial context offers an invaluable guide to this neglected era of British cinema.

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Total Pages : 3472 pages
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Download or read book Who's who written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 3472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 974 pages
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Total Pages : 1130 pages
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Download or read book The New Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 2392 pages
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