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Cinema and the Great War
Av Andrew Kelly
Inbunden, 1997
2600 kr
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Cinema and the Great War concentrates on one part of the art of the war: the cinema. Used as tool for propaganda during the war itself, by the mid 1920s cinema had begun to reflect the rejection of conflict prevalent in all the arts. Andrew Kelly explores the development of anti-war cinema in, …
J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry
Inbunden, 1993
2680 kr
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Presiding over the "golden era" of the British Film Industry from the mid to late 1940s, J. Arthur Rank financed movies such as Oliver Twist, The Red Shoes, Brief Encounter, Caesar and Cleopatra and Black Narcissus. Never before, and never since, has the industry risen to such heights.J. Arthur …
Realism and Tinsel
Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48
Häftad, 1992
636 kr
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With themes ranging from passion and romance to murder and psychological disturbance, popular British film in the 1940s found little favour with the critics, but provided thrills and entertainment for millions of people during a time of austerity and danger. Realism and Tinsel looks beyond the …
Hidden Cinema
British Film Censorship in Action 1913-1972
Häftad, 1993
655 kr
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How does film censorship work in Britain? Jim Robertson's new paperback edition of The Hidden Cinema argues that censorship has had a far greater influence on British film history than is often apparent, creating the `hidden cinema' of the title. Robertson charts the role of the British Board of …
Hollywood in Crisis
Cinema and American Society 1929-1939
Inbunden, 1996
2600 kr
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Hollywood in Crisis is a detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s. Colin Schindler, looking at Hollywood as an agent of Roosevelt's New Deal and the attempts made by film moguls and movie makers to withstand the political turmoil that threatened to engulf …
Hollywood in Crisis
Cinema and American Society 1929-1939
Häftad, 1996
655 kr
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Hollywood in Crisis is a detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s. Colin Schindler, looking at Hollywood as an agent of Roosevelt's New Deal and the attempts made by film moguls and movie makers to withstand the political turmoil that threatened to engulf …
J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry
Häftad, 1994
676 kr
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Presiding over the "golden era" of the British Film Industry from the mid to late 1940s, J. Arthur Rank financed movies such as Oliver Twist, The Red Shoes, Brief Encounter, Caesar and Cleopatra and Black Narcissus. Never before, and never since, has the industry risen to such heights.J. Arthur …
Cinema and the Great War
Av Andrew Kelly
Häftad, 2011
761 kr
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Cinema and the Great War concentrates on one part of the art of the war: the cinema. Used as tool for propaganda during the war itself, by the mid 1920s cinema had begun to reflect the rejection of conflict prevalent in all the arts. Andrew Kelly explores the development of anti-war cinema in, …
Femininity in the Frame
Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema
Av Melanie Bell
E-bok, 2009
321 kr
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It's widely assumed that Britain in the 1950s experienced a return to traditional gender roles. Popular cinema has typically been seen to represent this era through the dominant image of the 'happy housewife'. "Femininity in the Frame" is a sharply observant account of how British cinema engaged …
Age of the Dream Palace
Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain
E-bok, 2009
418 kr
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The period between the two world wars is often named 'the golden age of the cinema' in Britain. This definitive and entertaining book on the cinema and cinema-goers of the era is herewith reissued with a new Introduction. Jeffrey Richards, described by Philip French as 'a shrewd critic, a …
Best of British
Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present
Av Jeffrey Richards, Anthony Aldgate
E-bok, 1999
409 kr
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The new, revised and expanded paperback edition of this widely-used textbook for film history brings up to date its authors' demonstration of how a close study of films in their historical and cultural settings can enrich our understanding of both cinema and historical events. It introduces three …
Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots
Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema
E-bok, 2003
2151 kr
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The films "Brigadoon" and "Braveheart" have an enormous resonance both for Scots throughout the world and the wide audience of non-Scots for whom such films provide general impressions of "Scottishness". This provocative book discusses the films' representations of Scotland and the Scots, looking …
British Film Design
A History
E-bok, 2010
405 kr
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"British Film Design" is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema: "Dr. No's Hideaway", the buffet of "Brief Encounter", Vera Drake's parlour, "Hogwarts School"...and a thousand other visions of British films. This book is also about the people who have …
Femininity in the Frame
Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema
Av Melanie Bell
E-bok, 2009
314 kr
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It's widely assumed that Britain in the 1950s experienced a return to traditional gender roles. Popular cinema has typically been seen to represent this era through the dominant image of the 'happy housewife'. "Femininity in the Frame" is a sharply observant account of how British cinema engaged …
Film and Community in Britain and France
From La RèGle Du Jeu to Room at the Top
E-bok, 2004
434 kr
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Relations between France and Britain have always been uneasy and ambivelant. But in cinema, WWII changed all that for a time. Although the two countries' wartime fortunes differed, post-war both were busy reintegrating returning servicemen and prisoners of war, and accomodating the changed …
From Moscow to Madrid
Postmodern Cities, European Cinema
Av Ewa Mazierska, Laura Rascaroli
E-bok, 2002
447 kr
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Travelling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this lively and accessible book investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema and shows how European films represent the cities across old and new Europe. Interdisciplinary in approach, the text engages …
Hollywood Genres and Postwar America
Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir
E-bok, 2005
447 kr
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This is a clear and engrossing account of how popular films in America just after the close of the Second World War played out America's mood at that crucial time. It is also a revisionist challenge to received scholarly understanding of this mood, which has tended to be seen as characterized by an …
Hollywood's New Radicalism
War, Globalisation and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush
E-bok, 2005
414 kr
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Provides an up-to-date, insightful take on modern American cinema's relations with, and influence on Reagan's, Clinton's and both Bush's administrations. George W.Bush, Clinton and Ronald Reagan's relations are revealed with radical celebrities like Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and Warren …
Past and Present
National Identity and the British Historical Film
E-bok, 2005
437 kr
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This ground-breaking book takes as its focal point director Ken Loach's view that 'The only reason to make films that are a reflection on history is to talk about the present.' In the first book to take on this major genre in all its complexity, James Chapman argues that historical films say as …
Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945
Av David Welch
E-bok, 2001
397 kr
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This is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social, and economic contexts, from the pre-war cinema as it fell under the control of the Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, through to the end of the Second World War. David Welch studies more than one …
Spectacular Narratives
Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster
Av Geoff King
E-bok, 2000
385 kr
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What is the appeal of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster? The sheer scale and impact of big special effects sequences is part of the attraction of films such as Independence Day, Jurassic Park, Titanic or Mission Impossible. But they also offer other appeals, including the dynamics of …
Typical Men
The Representation of Masculinity in Popular British Cinema
E-bok, 2001
2104 kr
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Typical Men is the first book length study of masculinity in British cinemaand offers a broad and lively overview from the Second World War to the present day. Spicer argues that masculinity in popular fiction can best beunderstood as a range of dynamic and competing cultural types which rise and …
Withnail and Us
Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema
Av Justin Smith
E-bok, 2010
430 kr
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Cult has entered the cultural psyche in a profound and pervasive way. There is no corner of popular culture beyond the potential for cult transformation. Indeed, in entering common parlance the term has effectively lost its clandestine mystique. But why? And how did we get here with cult? "Withnail …
Projecting Tomorrow
Science Fiction and Popular Cinema
Av James Chapman, Nicholas J. Cull
E-bok, 2013
484 kr
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Cinema and science fiction were made for each other. The science fiction genre has produced some of the most extraordinary films ever made, yet science fiction cinema is about more than just special effects. It has also provided a vehicle for filmmakers and writers to comment on their own societies …
Powell and Pressburger
A Cinema of Magic Spaces
Av Andrew Moor
E-bok, 2005
348 kr
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The film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema. They made an extraordinary range of films, from The Spy in Black and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to A Canterbury Tale and The Red Shoes. With champions like Martin …
Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain
From the 1920s to the Present
Av Mark Glancy
E-bok, 2013
2247 kr
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For 100 years, Hollywood has provided both the majority and the most popular of films shown on British screens. For many Britons, Hollywood films are not foreign films. Whether seen in the cinema, on television or the internet, they are regarded as normal screen fare and a part of everyday life. …
Death Penalty in American Cinema
Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood Film
Av Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan, Yvonne Koslovsky-Golan
E-bok, 2014
2151 kr
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Killing as punishment in the USA, whether ordained by lynch mob or by the courts, reflects a paradox of the American nation: liberal, pluralistic, yet prone to lethal violence. This book examines the encounter between the legal history of the death penalty in America and its cinematic …
Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons
American Identity and the Cinema of International Relations
E-bok, 2014
2151 kr
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Frank Capra has long had a reputation as being the quintessential American director - the man who perfectly captured the identity and core values of the United States with a string of classic films in the 1930s and '40s, including It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a …
New Scottish Cinema
E-bok, 2015
2316 kr
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From a near standing start in the 1970s, the emergence and expansion of an aesthetically and culturally distinctive Scottish cinema proved to be one of the most significant developments within late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century British film culture. Individual Scottish films and …
Hollywood Riots
Violent Crowds and Progressive Politics in American Film
Av Doug Dibbern
E-bok, 2015
2104 kr
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The large literature about the politics of Hollywood in the period of McCarthy and the blacklist has largely overlooked political filmmaking during those agitated years. "Hollywood Riots" examines the most vibrant cycle of independently produced political films made while House Committee on …
