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| Author | : Brian McFarlane |
| Publisher | : Wallflower Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781904764380 |
A fresh, concise but wide-ranging introduction to and overview of British and Irish cinema, this volume contains 24 essays, each on a separate seminal film from the region. Films under discussion include 'Pink String and Sealing Wax', 'Room at the Top', 'The Italian Job', 'Orlando', and 'Sweet Sixteen'.
| Author | : Brian McFarlane |
| Publisher | : Wallflower Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Motion pictures |
| ISBN | : |
A fresh, concise but wide-ranging introduction to and overview of British and Irish cinema, this volume contains 24 essays, each on a separate seminal film from the region. Films under discussion include 'Pink String and Sealing Wax', 'Room at the Top', 'The Italian Job', 'Orlando', and 'Sweet Sixteen'.
| Author | : Yoram Allon |
| Publisher | : Wallflower Press |
| Total Pages | : 422 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9781903364215 |
The guide encompasses the careers of over 350 directors from the last 20 years. A must for any film studies library, it is a unique reference to the changing dynamics of these cinemas.
| Author | : Jacob Leigh |
| Publisher | : Wallflower Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9781903364314 |
"The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People examines the linking of art and politics that distinguishes the work of this leading British film director. Loach's films manifest recurrent themes over a long period of working with various collaborators, yet his handling of those themes has changed throughout his career. This book examines those changes as a way of reaching an understanding of Loach's style and meaning. It evaluates how Loach incorporates his political beliefs and those of his writers into his work and augments this thematic interpretation with contextual information gleaned from original archive research and new interviews."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Sam Manning |
| Publisher | : University of London Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2020-03-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1912702363 |
Cinema-going was the most popular commercial leisure activity in the first half of the twentieth century, peaking in 1946 with 1.6 billion recorded admissions. Though ‘going to the pictures’ remained a popular pastime, the transition to peacetime altered citizens’ leisure habits. During the 1950s increased affluence, the growth of television ownership and the diversification of leisure led to rapid declines in attendance. Cinema attendances fell in all regions, but the speed, nature and extent of decline varied widely across the United Kingdom. By linking national developments to detailed case studies of Belfast and Sheffield, this book adds nuance to our understanding of regional variations in film exhibition, audience habits and cinema-going experiences during a period of profound social and cultural change. Drawing on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative sources, Cinema and Cinema-Going conveys the diverse nature of this important industry, and the significance of place as a determinant of film attendance in post-war Britain.
| Author | : Lawrence Napper |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2017-09-05 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0231543506 |
Since the spectacular success of The Artist (2011) there has been a resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and particularly in the lush and passionate screen dramas of the 1920s. This book offers an introduction to the cinema of this extraordinary period, outlining the development of the form between the end of the First World War and the introduction of synchronized sound at the end of the 1920s. Lawrence Napper addresses the relationship between film aesthetics and the industrial and political contexts of film production through a series of case studies of "national" cinemas. It also focuses on film-going as the most popular leisure activity of the age. Topics such as the star system, cinema buildings, musical accompaniments, film fashions, and fan cultures are addressed—all the elements that ensured that the experience of the pictures was "big." The international dominance of Hollywood is outlined, as are the different responses to that dominance in Britain, Germany, and the USSR. Case studies seek to move beyond the familiar silent canon, and include The Oyster Princess (1919), It (1927), Shooting Stars (1927), and The Girl with the Hatbox (1927).
| Author | : Justine Ashby |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0415220610 |
British Cinema brings together leading international scholars to investigate the rich diversity of Britain's film production, and explore the different cultural traditions which have shaped Britain's national identity onscreen.
| Author | : Robert Niemi |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 2016-03-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0231850867 |
In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's idiosyncratic vision and propensity for formal experimentation resulted in an uneven body of work: some rank failures and intriguing near-misses, as well as a number of great films that are among the most influential works of New American Cinema. While Altman always professed to have nothing authoritative to say about the state of contemporary society, this volume surveys all of his major films in their sociohistorical context to reposition the director as a trenchant satirist and social critic of postmodern America, depicted as a lonely wasteland of fraudulent spectacle, exploitative social relations, and unfulfilled solitaries in search of elusive community.
| Author | : Jacqueline Furby |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 561 |
| Release | : 2015-08-04 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 023185076X |
Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent British cinema to become one of the most commercially successful directors in Hollywood. From Following (1998) to Interstellar (2014), Christopher Nolan's films explore philosophical concerns by experimenting with nonlinear storytelling while also working within classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. Contextualizing and closely reading each of his films, this collection examines the director's play with memory, time, trauma, masculinity, and identity, and considers the function of music and video games and the effect of IMAX on his work.
