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Film, Cinema, Genre
The Steve Neale Reader
Av Steve Neale, Frank Krutnik m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1529 kr
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This book brings together key works by pioneering film studies scholar Steve Neale. From the 1970s to the 2010s Neale’s vital and unparalleled contribution to the subject has shaped many of the critical agendas that helped to confirm film studies’ position as an innovative discipline within the …
Silent Features
The Development of Silent Feature Films 1914 - 1934
Av Steve Neale
Inbunden, 2018
1117 kr
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A collection of essays on fifteen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features. The aims of the collection are threefold: to provide detailed accounts of a wide array of films produced between the early 1910s and the early 1930s; to focus principally on films that may be well-known …
Silent Features
The Development of Silent Feature Films 1914 - 1934
Av Steve Neale
Häftad, 2018
412 kr
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A collection of essays on fifteen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features. The aims of the collection are threefold: to provide detailed accounts of a wide array of films produced between the early 1910s and the early 1930s; to focus principally on films that may be well-known …
Charles Urban
Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 - 1925
Häftad, 2018
349 kr
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Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world’s first successful natural colour moving picture system. He was also a pioneer in the filming of war, science, travel, actuality and news, a fervent …
Parallel Tracks
The Railroad and Silent Cinema
Av Lynne Kirby
Inbunden, 1997
1093 kr
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From its earliest days, the cinema has enjoyed a special kinship with the railroad, a mutual attraction based on similar ways of handling speed, visual perception, and the promise of a journey. PARALLEL TRACKS is the first book to explore and explain this relationship in both historical and …
'Film Europe' and 'Film America'
Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939
Av Andrew Higson, Richard Maltby
Häftad, 1999
394 kr
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A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of the American film industry to these plans to rival its hegemony. The book has an impressive array of top scholars from both America and …
World According To Hollywood,1918-1939
Av Ruth Vasey
Inbunden, 1997
1054 kr
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The World According to Hollywood examines the world-wide influence of the American film industry during its golden age — the 1920s and 1930s — and investigates the business policies that shaped the fictional universe of Hollywood movies. Vasey shows how the industry's self-censorship shaped the …
Chorus Of Raspberries
British Film Comedy 1929-1939
Av David Sutton
Inbunden, 2000
1022 kr
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A Chorus of Raspberries is the first full-length academic study of one of the most popular, profitable and persistent genres in British cinema. It redraws the map of British film history by arguing that comedy was the most successful, and perhaps the most important, genre of the 1930s, and that the …
Young And Innocent?
The Cinema in Britain, 1896-1930
Inbunden, 2002
1022 kr
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This book brings together the study of silent cinema and the study of British cinema, both of which have seen some of the most exciting developments in Film Studies in recent years. The result is a comprehensive survey of one of the most important periods of film history. Most of the acknowledged …
Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain
A Choice of Pleasures
Inbunden, 2000
1022 kr
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In the 1930s there were close to a billion annual admissions to the cinema in Britain and it was by far the most popular paid-for leisure activity. This book is an exploration of that popularity. John Sedgwick has developed the POPSTAT index, a methodology based on exhibition records which allows …
Great Art Of Light And Shadow
Archaeology of the Cinema
Av Laurent Mannoni, Richard Crangle
Häftad, 2000
456 kr
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Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the twentieth. First published in French …
Hollywood, Westerns And The 1930S
The Lost Trail
Häftad, 2001
346 kr
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For the first time, this book tells the 'lost' story of the 1930s Western. Written from a concern to understand Western films primarily as products of Hollywood's studio system, it recovers the context in which Westerns were produced, exhibited and viewed in the 1930s. Peter Stanfield highlights …
Young And Innocent?
The Cinema in Britain, 1896-1930
Häftad, 2002
419 kr
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This book brings together the study of silent cinema and the study of British cinema, both of which have seen some of the most exciting developments in Film Studies in recent years. The result is a comprehensive survey of one of the most important periods of film history. Most of the acknowledged …
Legitimate Cinema
Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918
Av Jon Burrows
Inbunden, 2003
1022 kr
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This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre. Why were so many West End legends such as Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Ellen Terry …
Big Show
British Cinema Culture in the Great War (1914-1918)
Inbunden, 2006
1022 kr
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The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One.In writing the definitive account of film exhibition and reception in Britain in the years 1914 to 1918, Michael Hammond shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded to the traumatic …
Multimedia Histories
From Magic Lanterns to Internet
Inbunden, 2007
1022 kr
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Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early …
Multimedia Histories
From Magic Lanterns to Internet
Häftad, 2007
346 kr
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Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and early …
Marketing Modernity
Victorian Popular Shows and Early Cinema
Av Joe Kember
Inbunden, 2009
1022 kr
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In this innovative study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember demonstrates that prior to the emergence of a specific discipline of screen acting and the arrival of picture personalities, the early cinema inherited its human dimensions from diverse earlier traditions of performance, from the magic …
Alternative Film Culture in Interwar Britain
Av Jamie Sexton
Inbunden, 2008
993 kr
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In the first book-length study to concentrate specifically on Britain, Jamie Sexton examines the rise of avant-garde and experimental film-making between the wars.The book provides a detailed view of how modernist and anti-mainstream currents emerged in the film industry in Britain.Alternative Film …
Going to the Movies
Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema
Av Richard Maltby, Melvyn Stokes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1084 kr
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This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South …
Going to the Movies
Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema
Av Richard Maltby, Melvyn Stokes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
371 kr
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This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South …
Reading the Cinematograph
The Cinema in British Short Fiction, 1896-1912
Av Andrew Shail
Inbunden, 2011
1141 kr
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The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films. It pairs eight intriguing short stories on cinema with eight new essays unveiling the rich documentary value of the original …
Reading the Cinematograph
The Cinema in British Short Fiction, 1896-1912
Av Andrew Shail
Häftad, 2011
354 kr
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The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films. It pairs eight intriguing short stories on cinema with eight new essays unveiling the rich documentary value of the original …
Charles Urban
Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897 - 1925
Inbunden, 2013
1031 kr
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Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world’s first successful natural colour moving picture system. He was also a pioneer in the filming of war, science, travel, actuality and news, a fervent …
Appreciation of Film
The Postwar Film Society Movement and Film Culture in Britain
Inbunden, 2016
1022 kr
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This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture. It brings to life a lost history of alternative film exhibition and challenges the general assumption that the study of film began with university courses on …
Cecil Hepworth and the Rise of the British Film Industry 1899-1911
Av Simon Brown
Inbunden, 2016
1054 kr
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This book offers an industrial, economic and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry from 1899–1911, through a case study of one of the most celebrated pioneer film makers, Cecil Hepworth.Presenting a picture of daily life in his film studio, an analysis of Hepworth’s …
Celluloid War Memorials
The British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Great War
Inbunden, 2016
1000 kr
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The films made by the British Instructional Films (BIF) company in the decade following the end of the First World War helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered. This is both a work of cinema history and a study of the public’s memory of WW1.By the early twenties, the British film …
Picturegoers
A Critical Anthology of Eyewitness Experiences
Inbunden, 2022
1165 kr
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This book is a carefully selected, thematically arranged collection of eyewitness accounts of seeing motion pictures – from the 1890s to the present day, and from countries across the globe. Included are essays, diaries, memoirs, travel accounts, oral history interviews, poems and extracts from …
Bill Douglas
A Film Artist
Inbunden, 2022
1227 kr
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This book examines the work and art of Bill Douglas, thirty years after his death.Douglas made only a small body of work during his lifetime: The Bill Douglas Trilogy, based on his deprived childhood in Scotland; and Comrades, his epic on the Tolpuddle Martyrs; but he is acknowledged by many as one …
Screen Censorship Companion
Critical Explorations in the Control of Film and Screen Media
Av Daniel Biltereyst, Ernest Mathijs m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1362 kr
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Throughout the history of film, censorship has existed everywhere—in all shapes, colours, and dimensions. The act of restricting the free production, circulation, screening, and consumption of movies was never unique to authoritarian regimes. Censorship has had far-reaching implications for …
