British Cinema

British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s. Providing a historical perspective to the contemporary resurgence of British cinema, this unique anthology brings together leading international scholars to investigate the rich diversity of British film production, from the early sound period of the 1930s to the present day. The contributors address: * British Cinema Studies and the concept of national cinema * the distribution and reception of British films in the US and Europe * key genres, movements and cycles of British cinema in the 1940s, 50s and 60s * questions of authorship and agency, with case studies of individual studios, stars, producers and directors * trends in British cinema, from propaganda films of the Second World War to the New Wave and the 'Swinging London' films of the Sixties * the representation of marginalised communities in films such as Trainspotting and The Full Monty * the evolution of social realism from Saturday Night, Sunday Morning to Nil By Mouth * changing approaches to Northern Ireland and the Troubles in films like The Long Good Friday and Alan Clarke's Elephant * contemporary 'art' and 'quality' cinema, from heritage drama to the work of Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Terence Davies and Patrick Keiller. Justine Ashby, James Chapman, Paul Dave, John Ellis, Leo Enticknap, Julia Hallam, Sue Harper, Andrew Higson, John Hill, Peter Hutchings, Marcia Landy, Adam Lowenstein, Moya Luckett, Claire Monk, Lawre

ISBN 0415220629   Pages 408 ISBN13 9780415220620 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 576 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 25 May 2000   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 99087256   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY 791.430941   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		List of illustrations
		Notes on contributors
		Acknowledgements
		Introduction by Justine Ashby and Andrew Higson		1
Pt. I		Re-framing British Cinema Studies		19
1		Rethinking British cinema by Jeffrey Richards		21
2		The instability of the national by Andrew Higson		35
Pt. II		The distribution and reception of British films abroad		49
3		Stepping westward: the distribution of British feature films in America, and the case of The Private Life of Henry VIII by Sarah Street		51
4		The other side of paradise: British cinema from an American perspective by Marcia Landy		63
5		From The Third Man to Shakespeare in Love: fifty years of British success on Continental screens by Pierre Sorlin		80
Pt. III		Cinema, popular culture and the middlebrow		93
6		British cinema as performance art: Brief Encounter, Radio Parade of 1935 and the circumstances of film exhibition by John Ellis		95
7		British cinema and the middlebrow by Lawrence Napper		110
8		Arthur Askey and the construction of popular entertainment in Band Waggon and Make Mine a Million by Jane Stokes		124
Pt. IV		Authorship and agency		135
9		From wholesome girls to difficult dowagers: actresses in 1930s British cinema by Sue Harper		137
10		Outsiders in England: the films of the Associated British Picture Corporation, 1949-1958 by Vincent Porter		152
11		Betty Box, 'the lady in charge': negotiating space for a female producer in postwar cinema by Justine Ashby		166
12		Authorship and British cinema: the case of Roy Ward Baker by Peter Hutchings		179
Pt. V		Genres, movements and cycles		191
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