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Author | : Simon Brown |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1838714804 |
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Created as a companion volume to a major history of colour in British Cinema (also by Sarah Street), British Colour Cinema is a book based on a series of unique interviews conducted by Sarah Street and Elizabeth I Watkins with practitioners who worked in the UK with Technicolor and/or Eastmancolor during the 1930s-1950s.
Author | : Sarah Street |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2022-04-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1911239589 |
Download Colour Films in Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Eastmancolor and branding -- Institutions and Eastmancolor -- Comedy and satire -- Social realism and contemporary drama -- The colour of crime -- The colour fantastic : fantasy, horror and science fiction -- Historical and costume films -- Musicals, pop music and the concert film -- Colour and collaboration -- Art, experimental/avant grade practices -- Amateur colour filmmaking -- Short, documentary and advertising films -- Sex and Eastmancolor -- Cultures and practices of preservation and restoration.
Author | : Sarah Street |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1838715142 |
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How did the coming of colour change the British film industry? Unlike sound, the arrival of colour did not revolutionise the industry overnight. For British film-makers and enthusiasts, colour was a controversial topic. While it was greeted by some as an exciting development – with scope for developing a uniquely British aesthetic – others were deeply concerned. How would audiences accustomed to seeing black-and-white films – which were commonly regarded as being superior to their garish colour counterparts – react? Yet despite this initial trepidation, colour captivated many British inventors and film-makers. Using different colour processes, these innovators produced films that demonstrated remarkable experimentation and quality. Sarah Street's illuminating study is the first to trace the history of colour in British cinema, and analyses the use of colour in a range of films, both fiction and non-fiction, including The Open Road, The Glorious Adventure, This is Colour, Blithe Spirit, This Happy Breed, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffmann and Moulin Rouge. Beautifully illustrated with full colour film stills, this important study provides fascinating insights into the complex process whereby the challenges and opportunities of new technologies are negotiated within creative practice. The book also includes a Technical Appendix by Simon Brown (Kingston University, UK), which provides further details of the range of colour processes used by British film-makers.
Author | : Sarah Street |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1911239600 |
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The story of Eastmancolor's arrival on the British filmmaking scene is one of intermittent trial and error, intense debate and speculation before gradual acceptance. This book traces the journey of its adoption in British Film and considers its lasting significance as one of the most important technical innovations in film history. Through original archival research and interviews with key figures within the industry, the authors examine the role of Eastmancolor in relation to key areas of British cinema since the 1950s; including its economic and structural histories, different studio and industrial strategies, and the wider aesthetic changes that took place with the mass adoption of colour. Their analysis of British cinema through the lens of colour produces new interpretations of key British film genres including social realism, historical and costume drama, science fiction, horror, crime, documentary and even sex films. They explore how colour communicated meaning in films ranging from the Carry On series to Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), from Lawrence of Arabia (1962) to A Passage to India (1984), and from Goldfinger (1964) to 1984 (1984), and in the work of key directors and cinematographers of both popular and art cinema including Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Ridley Scott, Peter Greenaway and Chris Menges.
Author | : Simon Brown |
Publisher | : British Film Institute |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-06-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781844574148 |
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Created as a companion volume to a major history of colour in British Cinema (also by Sarah Street), British Colour Cinema is a book based on a series of unique interviews conducted by Sarah Street and Elizabeth I Watkins with practitioners who worked in the UK with Technicolor and/or Eastmancolor during the 1930s-1950s.
Author | : John Hill |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 639 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1118482832 |
Download A Companion to British and Irish Cinema Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A stimulating overview of the intellectual arguments and critical debates involved in the study of British and Irish cinemas British and Irish film studies have expanded in scope and depth in recent years, prompting a growing number of critical debates on how these cinemas are analysed, contextualized, and understood. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema addresses arguments surrounding film historiography, methods of textual analysis, critical judgments, and the social and economic contexts that are central to the study of these cinemas. Twenty-nine essays from many of the most prominent writers in the field examine how British and Irish cinema have been discussed, the concepts and methods used to interpret and understand British and Irish films, and the defining issues and debates at the heart of British and Irish cinema studies. Offering a broad scope of commentary, the Companion explores historical, cultural and aesthetic questions that encompass over a century of British and Irish film studies—from the early years of the silent era to the present-day. Divided into five sections, the Companion discusses the social and cultural forces shaping British and Irish cinema during different periods, the contexts in which films are produced, distributed and exhibited, the genres and styles that have been adopted by British and Irish films, issues of representation and identity, and debates on concepts of national cinema at a time when ideas of what constitutes both ‘British’ and ‘Irish’ cinema are under question. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema is a valuable and timely resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of film, media, and cultural studies, and for those seeking contemporary commentary on the cinemas of Britain and Ireland.
Author | : Samantha Lay |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0231501617 |
Download British Social Realism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
British Social Realism details and explores the rich tradition of social realism in British cinema from its beginnings in the documentary movement of the 1930s to its more stylistically eclectic and generically hybrid contemporary forms. Samantha Lay examines the movements, moments and cycles of British social realist texts through a detailed consideration of practice, politics, form, style and content, using case studies of key texts including Listen to Britain, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Letter to Brezhnev, and Nil by Mouth. In discussing the work of many prominent realist filmmakers, the book considers the challenges for social realist film practice and production in Britain, now and in the future.
Author | : Mr Jonathan Gems |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2018-01-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781999842208 |
Download Who Killed British Cinema? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Until 1970, Britain had the second biggest film industry in the world. Studios like the Rank Organisation, Associated British Picture Corporation, British Lion and Anglo-Amalgamated made and released more than fifty films per year. British Cinema was thriving and selling its unique product globally. There were countless opportunities for film makers. Tens of thousands worked in British Films. Today we have not one single British movie studio and 98% of the films in our cinemas are made by foreign entities. Every major European country has an indigenous movie culture. What happened to ours? Who killed it? And how can we get it back?
Author | : Paul Coates |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1838714987 |
Download Cinema and Colour Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Cinema and Colour: The Saturated Image is a major new critical study of the use of colour in cinema. Using the dialectic of colour and monochrome as a starting point, Paul Coates explores the symbolic meanings that colour bears in different cultures, and engages with a range of critical approaches to filmic colour, building on the work of such theorists as Sergei Eisenstein, Rudolf Arnheim and Stanley Cavell. Coates also provides close analyses of films by directors such as Antonioni, Bergman, Godard, Hitchcock, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Sirk, Kieslowski, Tarkovsky, Von Trier and Zhang Yimou. Coates' focus is on films that deliberately exploit the rich multiplicity of cultural meanings and associations ascribed to colour, including All That Heaven Allows, Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle, The Double Life of Véronique, The Flight of the Red Balloon, Red Desert, Schindler's List, Silent Light, Solaris, The Three Colours Trilogy and The Wizard of Oz.
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.