The 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.
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This book has no higher mission than to keep its nose clean: it has no argument, no vision of British cinema, just a lot of fashionable covering-of-bases to protect its vacuity. When it stoops to an actual film, the reading is staggeringly flat. I suppose it is meant to be sold to undergraduates somewhere or other, but need they be treated so demeaningly?
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Cinema was born in the 1890s, the 'last machine' of Victorian invention. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heritage genre, heritage films, film stardom, film finance, costume melodramas, national cinema, historical films, wicked lady, documentary movement, film trade, film movement, screen entertainment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anna Neagle, Second World War, New Wave, Board of Trade, Herbert Wilcox, Brief Encounter, British Screen, Channel Four, David Lean, Derek Jarman, Films Act, Gracie Fields, Tony Richardson, James Bond, United Artists, Carol Reed, Film Unit, Michael Balcon, Miss Whitchurch, Diana Dors, First World War, Richard Lester, Victoria the Great, Charm School, Courtesy of Rank Film Distributors New!
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heritage genre, heritage films, film stardom, film finance, costume melodramas, national cinema, historical films, wicked lady, documentary movement, film trade, film movement, screen entertainment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anna Neagle, Second World War, New Wave, Board of Trade, Herbert Wilcox, Brief Encounter, British Screen, Channel Four, David Lean, Derek Jarman, Films Act, Gracie Fields, Tony Richardson, James Bond, United Artists, Carol Reed, Film Unit, Michael Balcon, Miss Whitchurch, Diana Dors, First World War, Richard Lester, Victoria the Great, Charm School, Courtesy of Rank Film Distributors New!
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- The British Film Institute: [Hc]: [1993-94]: House of Commons Papers: [1993-94] by Great Britain on 7 pages
- Brief Encounter (Lorrimer Film Scripts) by David Lean on 4 pages
- The Red Shoes by Michael Powell on page 161, page 162, and page 164
- Brief Encounter (BFI Film Classics) by Richard Dyer on page 127, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- British Cinema History by James Curran in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Private Life of Henry VIII: A British Film Guide by Greg Walker on 7 pages
- Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India by Priya Jaikumar on 5 pages
- European Cinema: An Introduction by Jill Forbes on 4 pages
- The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953 by Billie Melman on page 189, page 224, and Back Matter
- British Cinema of the 90s (Distributed for British Film Institute) by Robert Murphy on page 46, page 133, and Back Matter
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