The British Cinema Book

Robert Murphy (ed.)



Author:
Title:The British Cinema Book
Place:London
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan/British Film Institute
Year:2009
Pages:xii, 452
Index:yes
Bibliography: no
Illustrations: yes

Articles
1 Robert Murphy, Introduction
3 , Part One: Debates and Controversies
5 Alan Lovell, The British Cinema: The Known Cinema?
13 John Hill, British Cinema as National Cinema: Production, Audience and Representation
21 Nick James, British Cinema's US Surrender - A View from 2001
28 Geoff Brown, Paradise Found and Lost: The Course of British Realism
39 Erik Hedling, Lindsay Anderson and the Development of British Art Cinema
46 Sheldon Hall, The Wrong Sort of Cinema: Refashioning the Heritage Film Debate
57 Justin Smith, British Cult Cinema
65 , Part Two: Industry, Genre, Representation
67 Jeffrey Richards and James C. Robertson, British Film Censorship
78 Allen Eyles, Exhibition and the Cinemagoing Experience
85 James Chapman, Action, Spectacle and the Boy's Own Tradition in British Cinema
96 Ian Conrich, Traditions of the British Horror Film
106 Richard Dacre, Traditions of British Comedy
118 Jim Pines, British Cinema and Black Representation
125 Kevin Gough-Yates, Exiles and British Cinema
133 Stella Bruzzi, Where Are Those Buggers? Aspects of Homosexuality in Mainstream British Cinema
143 , Part Three: British Cinema 1895-1939
145 Charles Barr, Before Blackmail: Silent British Cinema
155 Jon Burrows, Big Studio Production in the Pre-quota Years
163 Christine Gledhill, Late Silent Britain
177 Ian Aitken, The British Documentary Film Movement
185 Sarah Street, British Film and the National Interest, 1927-39
192 Lawrence Napper, A Despicable Tradition? Quota Quickies in the 1930s
202 Tom Ryall, A British Studio System: The Associated British Picture Corporation and the Gaumont-Britsh Picture Corporation in the 1930s
211 Linda Wood, Low-budget British Films in the 1930s
221 , Part Four: British Cinema from World War II to the 70s
223 Robert Murphy, The Heart of Britain: British Cinema at War
232 Marcia Landy, Melodrama and Femininity in World War II British Cinema
240 Andrew Moor, No Place Like Home: Powell, Pressburger Utopia
247 Raymond Durgnat, Some Lines of Inquiry into Post-war British Crimes
259 Tim Pulleine, A Song and Dance at the Local: Thoughts on Ealing
267 Vincent Porter, Methodism versus the Marketplace: The Rank Organisation and British Cinema
276 Sue Harper, Bonnie Prince Charlie Revisited: British Costume Film in the 1950s
286 Melanie Williams, 'Twilight Women' of 1950s British Cinema
296 Andrew Spicer, Male Stars, Masculinity and British Cinema, 1945-60
304 Peter Hutchings, Beyond the New Wave: Realism in British Cinema, 1959-63
313 Christine Geraghty, Women and 60s British Cinema: The Development of the 'Darling' Girl
321 Robert Murphy, Strange Days: British Cinema in the Late 1960s
333 Pamela Church Gibson and Andrew Hill, 'Tutte e Macchio!': Excess, Masquerade and Performativity in 70s Cinema
341 , Part Five: Contemporary British Cinema
343 Michael O'Pray, 'New Romanticism' and British Avant-Garde Film in the Early 80s
350 Martin McLoone, Internal Decolonisation? British Cinema in the Celtic Fringe
357 Robert Murphy, Citylife: Urban Fairy-tales in Late 90s British Cinema
366 Brian McFarlane, The More Things Change... British Cinema in the 90s
375 Steve Chibnall, Travels in Ladland: The British Gangster Film Cycle, 1998-2001
387 Barbara Korte and Claudia Sternberg, Asian British Cinema since the 1990s
395 Robert Murphy, Bright Hopes, Dark Dreams: A Guide to New British Cinema
408 William Brown, Not Flagwaving but Flagdrowning, or Postcards from Post-Britain
417 Robert Murphy, Postscript: A Short History of British Cinema

Author:Robert Murphy
Title:Introduction
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:1-2
Illustrations:  no
Author:
Title:Part One: Debates and Controversies
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:3-64
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Alan Lovell
Title:The British Cinema: The Known Cinema?
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:5-12
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:John Hill
Title:British Cinema as National Cinema: Production, Audience and Representation
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:13-20
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Nick James
Title:British Cinema's US Surrender - A View from 2001
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:21-27
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Geoff Brown
Title:Paradise Found and Lost: The Course of British Realism
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:28-38
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Erik Hedling
Title:Lindsay Anderson and the Development of British Art Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:39-45
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Related person:   Lindsay Anderson
Author:Sheldon Hall
Title:The Wrong Sort of Cinema: Refashioning the Heritage Film Debate
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:46-56
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Justin Smith
Title:British Cult Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:57-64
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:
Title:Part Two: Industry, Genre, Representation
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:65-141
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Jeffrey Richards and James C. Robertson
Linked author:
Title:British Film Censorship
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:67-77
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Allen Eyles
Linked author:
Title:Exhibition and the Cinemagoing Experience
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:78-84
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:James Chapman
Linked author:
Title:Action, Spectacle and the Boy's Own Tradition in British Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:85-95
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Ian Conrich
Linked author:
Title:Traditions of the British Horror Film
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:96-105
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Richard Dacre
Linked author:
Title:Traditions of British Comedy
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:106-117
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Jim Pines
Linked author:
Title:British Cinema and Black Representation
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:118-124
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Kevin Gough-Yates
Linked author:
Title:Exiles and British Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:125-132
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Stella Bruzzi
Linked author:
Title:Where Are Those Buggers? Aspects of Homosexuality in Mainstream British Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:133-141
Illustrations:  yes
Author:
Title:Part Three: British Cinema 1895-1939
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:143-219
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Charles Barr
Title:Before Blackmail: Silent British Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:145-154
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Jon Burrows
Title:Big Studio Production in the Pre-quota Years
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:155-162
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Christine Gledhill
Title:Late Silent Britain
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:163-176
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Ian Aitken
Title:The British Documentary Film Movement
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:177-184
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Sarah Street
Title:British Film and the National Interest, 1927-39
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:185-191
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Lawrence Napper
Title:A Despicable Tradition? Quota Quickies in the 1930s
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:192-201
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Tom Ryall
Title:A British Studio System: The Associated British Picture Corporation and the Gaumont-Britsh Picture Corporation in the 1930s
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:202-210
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Linda Wood
Title:Low-budget British Films in the 1930s
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:211-219
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:
Title:Part Four: British Cinema from World War II to the 70s
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:221-340
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Robert Murphy
Title:The Heart of Britain: British Cinema at War
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:223-231
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Marcia Landy
Title:Melodrama and Femininity in World War II British Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:232-239
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Andrew Moor
Title:No Place Like Home: Powell, Pressburger Utopia
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:240-246
Illustrations:  yes
Related persons:   Emeric Pressburger
Michael Powell
Author:Raymond Durgnat
Title:Some Lines of Inquiry into Post-war British Crimes
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:247-258
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Tim Pulleine
Title:A Song and Dance at the Local: Thoughts on Ealing
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:259-266
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Vincent Porter
Title:Methodism versus the Marketplace: The Rank Organisation and British Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:267-275
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Sue Harper
Title:Bonnie Prince Charlie Revisited: British Costume Film in the 1950s
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:276-285
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Melanie Williams
Title:'Twilight Women' of 1950s British Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:286-295
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Andrew Spicer
Title:Male Stars, Masculinity and British Cinema, 1945-60
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:296-303
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Peter Hutchings
Title:Beyond the New Wave: Realism in British Cinema, 1959-63
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:304-312
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Christine Geraghty
Title:Women and 60s British Cinema: The Development of the 'Darling' Girl
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:313-320
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Robert Murphy
Title:Strange Days: British Cinema in the Late 1960s
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:321-332
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Pamela Church Gibson and Andrew Hill
Linked author:
Title:'Tutte e Macchio!': Excess, Masquerade and Performativity in 70s Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:333-340
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:
Title:Part Five: Contemporary British Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:341-416
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Michael O'Pray
Title:'New Romanticism' and British Avant-Garde Film in the Early 80s
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:343-349
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Martin McLoone
Title:Internal Decolonisation? British Cinema in the Celtic Fringe
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:350-356
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Robert Murphy
Title:Citylife: Urban Fairy-tales in Late 90s British Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:357-365
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Brian McFarlane
Title:The More Things Change... British Cinema in the 90s
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:366-374
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Steve Chibnall
Title:Travels in Ladland: The British Gangster Film Cycle, 1998-2001
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:375-386
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Barbara Korte and Claudia Sternberg
Linked author:
Title:Asian British Cinema since the 1990s
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:387-394
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Robert Murphy
Linked author:
Title:Bright Hopes, Dark Dreams: A Guide to New British Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:395-407
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:William Brown
Linked author:
Title:Not Flagwaving but Flagdrowning, or Postcards from Post-Britain
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:408-416
Bibliography:yes
Illustrations:  yes
Author:Robert Murphy
Linked author:
Title:Postscript: A Short History of British Cinema
in:Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009
Pp:417-425
Illustrations:  yes