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Author | : Steve Chibnall |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 183871863X |
Download The British 'B' Film Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first book to provide a thorough examination of the British 'B' movie, from the war years to the 1960s. The authors draw on archival research, contemporary trade papers and interviews with key 'B' filmmakers to map the 'B' movie phenomenon both as artefact and as industry product, and as a reflection on their times.
Author | : Brian McFarlane |
Publisher | : Methuen Publishing |
Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download An Autobiography of British Cinema Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An Autobiography of British Cinema tell the story of British film by those who made it.
Author | : Frank Gray |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2019-07-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3030175057 |
Download The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are known collectively as the ‘Brighton School’ and are positioned as being at the forefront of Britain’s contribution to the birth of film. The book focuses on the years 1896 to 1903, as it was during this short period that film emerged as a new technology, a new enterprise and a new form of entertainment. Beginning with a historiography of the Brighton School, the study goes on to examine the arrival of the first 35mm films in Britain, the first film exhibitions in Brighton and the first projection of film in Brighton. Both Smith and Williamson’s work features a progression from the production of single shot unedited films to multi-shot edited films. Their subject matter was inspired by a knowledge of contemporary pantomime, humour, literature, theatre, mesmerism, the magic lantern and current affairs and their practices were underpinned by active involvement in the new film trade. Through the exploration of how these filmmakers cultivated a new way of understanding film and its commercial potential, this book establishes them as key figures in the development of British film culture.
Author | : Benjamin Halligan |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003-11-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780719063510 |
Download Michael Reeves Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Michael Reeves died at age 25 in 1969, between the end of Swinging London and the collapse of the British film industry--an apt candidate to represent all that could have been. This critical biography claims Reeves as the great, lost auteur of British cinema and traces his conception of film back to his childhood and formative experiences. Benjamin Halligan examines Reeves' films in the context of the times, citing The Sorcerers and Witchfinder General as foreshadowing and critiquing the psychedelic and revolutionary zeitgeist. Reeves's earlier work on the fringes of the freewheeling European exploitation cinema is also covered, with particularly emphasis on his Revenge of the Blood Beast.
Author | : Robert Murphy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1838714774 |
Download British Cinema of the 90s Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work examines major box office hits like 'The Full Monty' as well as critically acclaimed films like 'Under the Skin'. It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisation of British film culture, Hollywood and Europe, changing representations of sexuality and ethnicity.
Author | : Geoffrey Macnab |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-11-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857729519 |
Download Delivering Dreams Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Film Distributors are the unsung heroes of cinema. Without them, the film industry would grind to a halt. Drawing on the archives of the Film Distributors' Association (FDA), as well as on interviews with leading British distributors of today, Delivering Dreams tells the, largely unacknowledged, story of how films were, and are, brought to British cinema-goers. It profiles some of the most flamboyant and controversial figures involved in UK distribution over the last 100 years, ranging from the founders of huge companies to visionaries who have launched small art house labels. Geoffrey MacNab also explores how the sector has reacted to a rapidly changing market and technological environment, from the transition to sound in the late 1920s to the spectre of TV in the 1950s and the move to digital in the 2000s. Ranging from the films of Charlie Chaplin to The King's Speech, and published to coincide with the centenary of the FDA's creation in December 1915, this book highlights the crucial role that distributors have played in maintaining the solid foundations of the British film industry.
Author | : Michael Winterbottom |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2021-10-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1839023406 |
Download Dark Matter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Sight & Sound Book of the Year "Eye-opening and addictively readable." Total Film Who and what decides if a film gets funded? How do those who control the purse strings also determine a film's content and even its message? Writing as the director of award-winning feature films including Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People and The Road to Guantanamo as well as the hugely popular The Trip series, Michael Winterbottom provides an insider's view of the workings of international film funding and distribution, revealing how the studios that fund film production and control distribution networks also work against a sustainable independent film culture and limit innovation in filmmaking style and content. In addition to reflecting upon his own filmmaking career, featuring critical and commercial successes alongside a 'very long list' of films that didn't get made, Winterbottom also interviews leading contemporary filmmakers including Lynne Ramsay, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Asif Kapadia and Joanna Hogg about their filmmaking practice. The book closes with a vision of how the contemporary filmmaking landscape could be reformed for the better with fairer funding and payment practices allowing for a more innovative and sustainable 21st century industry.
Author | : Paul Mazey |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2020-01-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 303033550X |
Download British Film Music Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers a fresh approach to British film music by tracing the influence of Britain’s musical heritage on the film scores of this era. From the celebration of landscape and community encompassed by pastoral music and folk song, and the connection of both with the English Musical Renaissance, to the mystical strains of choral sonorities and the stirring effects of the march, this study explores the significance of music in British film culture. With detailed analyses of the work of such key filmmakers as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Laurence Olivier and Carol Reed, and composers including Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and Brian Easdale, this systematic and in-depth study explores the connotations these musical styles impart to the films and considers how each marks them with a particularly British inflection.
Author | : Su Holmes |
Publisher | : Intellect (UK) |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Download British Tv & Film Culture in the 1950s Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s. Drawing upon archival research, it does this by exploring the development of the early cinema programme on television - principally Current Release (BBC, 1952-3), Picture Parade (BBC, 1956) and Film Fanfare (ABC, 1956-7) - and argues that it was these texts which played the central role in the developing relations between the media. Particularly when it comes to Britain, the early co-existence of television and cinema has been seen as hostile and antagonistic, but in situating these programmes within the contexts of their institutional production, aesthetic construction and reception, the book aims to 'reconstruct' television's coverage of the cinema as crucial to the fabric of British film and television culture at the time. It demonstrates how the roles of cinema and television - as media industries and cultural forms, but crucially as sites of screen entertainment - effectively came together at this time in such a way that is unique to this decade.
Author | : Steve Chibnall |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1838717714 |
Download Quota Quickies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book, the first of two volumes, will provide a major new history of the British B film, tracing the development of the low-budget supporting feature from the 1927 Films Act (which introduced a quota system for the distribution and exhibition of indigenous product) to the age of television, when B film producers channelled their energies into making TV programmes. Along the way, the authors will address leading producers and studios, B film stars, distributors, the genres and themes that tended to dominate B film production (comedy, horror, crime and fantasy). 'Quota Quickies' will include a case study of the B films of Michael Powell. The authors' argument is that the B film was hugely important in British cinema history in offering an opportunity for British actors and technicians to develop their careers, and that the films themselves provided an outlet for the exploration of peculiarly British cultural concerns in an industry traditionally dominated by Hollywood output. They also contend that some of the films stand up well to contemporary viewing and are deserving of critical re-evaluation.