British Art Cinema

Paul Newland is REF Manager at Bath Spa UniversityBrain Hoyle is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Dundee

• Introduction: British art cinema: creativity, experimentation and innovation - Paul Newland and Brian Hoyle1 ‘Art cinema’, 1920s British film culture: Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Asquith - Tom Ryall2 Humphrey Jennings: of images, poetry and Pandaemonium - Owen Evans 3 Out of the war, on with the arts: cultural politics and art films in post-war Britain - Katerina Loukopoulou4 Attitudes towards experiment in British cinema: the amateur art films of Enrico Cocozza - Ryan Shand 5 Art cinema, British production and the 1960s - Duncan Petrie6 Happy accident: the symbiosis of Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter - Peter Jameson7 The parameters of British art cinema: a case study of John Krish - Robert Shail8 The reputation of Nicolas Roeg - Paul Newland9 ‘As the first black face on the scene, I had to push the doors open’: Horace Ové and Pressure (1975) - Sally Shaw10 Art cinema and the British poetic realist tradition - David Forrest11 The third avant garde: Black Audio Film Collective and Latin America - Paul Elliott12 The rise of British art cinema in the 1980s - John Hill13 Derek Jarman, trance films and medieval art cinema - Jo George14 Twin traditions: the biopic and the composed film in British art cinema - Brian Hoyle15 Don Boyd and the business of art cinema - Phil Wickham16 Shakespearean film as art cinema: Stage Beauty as a cerebral retort to Hollywood - Sarah Martindale17 Boundary crossings and inter-subjective imaginings: Sarah Turner’s Perestroika - Kim KnowlesIndex