This is a revised and expanded edition of the classic book on film history. The authors examine how aspects of British society are reflected in and shaped by cinema. Films studied include, among others, Sanders of the River, A Canterbury Tale, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Guinea Pig, The Blue Lamp, The Ladykillers, I'm All Right Jack, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, If . . . , and Scandal.
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Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University and General Editor of the Cinema and Society series. Anthony Aldgate is Reader in Film and History at the Open University.
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From the 1920s to the 1950s cinema-going was the principal leisure activity of a large proportion of the British people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The Blue Lamp, World War, Michael Powell, Arthur Marwick, Jeffrey Richards, Colonel Blimp, British Board of Film Censors, Lindsay Anderson, South Riding, Daily Telegraph, Charles Barr, Sunday Times, Ealing Studios, Manchester Guardian, Raymond Durgnat, Tony Richardson, Ministry of Information, Stephen Ward, Alexander Korda, Daily Mail, George Dixon, Michael Balcon, Sanders of the River, Labour Party, Alexander Walker New!
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From the 1920s to the 1950s cinema-going was the principal leisure activity of a large proportion of the British people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new wave films, new wave cinema, police series Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Blue Lamp, World War, Michael Powell, Arthur Marwick, Jeffrey Richards, Colonel Blimp, British Board of Film Censors, Lindsay Anderson, South Riding, Daily Telegraph, Charles Barr, Sunday Times, Ealing Studios, Manchester Guardian, Raymond Durgnat, Tony Richardson, Ministry of Information, Stephen Ward, Alexander Korda, Daily Mail, George Dixon, Michael Balcon, Sanders of the River, Labour Party, Alexander Walker New!
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- Ealing Studios: A Movie Book by Charles Barr on 7 pages
- Sixties British Cinema (The History of British Film) by Robert Murphy on page 147, page 199, and page 237
- Lindsay Anderson (Movie Paperbacks) by Elizabeth Sussex on page 217, page 218, and page 239
- British Cinema History by James Curran on page 52, page 235, and page 238
- Feature Films As History by Short on page 15, page 52, and page 238
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- The British Isles since 1945 (Short Oxford History of the British Isles) by Kathleen Burk in Back Matter
- Royal Historical Society Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History: Publications of 2002 by Austin Gee on page 351
- The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present by Christopher Harvie on page 202
- British National Cinema (National Cinemas) by Sarah Street in Back Matter
- New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communications) by Brian McFarlane on page 234
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