The British Cinema Book

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Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction.- PART I: DEBATES AND CONTROVERSIES.- The British Cinema: The Known Cinema? A.Lovell.- British Cinema as National Cinema: Production, Audience and Representation J.Hill.- They Think It's All Over: British Cinema's US Surrender, A View from 2001 N.James.- Paradise Found and Lost: The Course of British Realism G.Brown .- Lindsay Anderson and the Development of British Art Cinema E.Hedling .- The Wrong Sort of Cinema: Refashioning the Heritage Film Debate S.Hall.- British Cult Cinema J.Smith.- PART II: INDUSTRY, GENRE, REPRESENTATION.- British Film Censorship J.Richards & J.Robertson.- Exhibition and the Cinema-going Experience A.Eyles.- Action, Spectacle and the Boy's Own Tradition in British Cinema J.Chapman.- Traditions of the British Horror Film I.Conrich.- Traditions of British Comedy R.Dacre.- British Cinema and Black Representation J.Pines.- Exiles and British Cinema K.Gough-Yates.- Where Are Those Buggers?: Aspects of Homosexuality in Mainstream British Cinema S.Bruzzi.- PART III: BRITISH CINEMA 1895-1939.- Before Blackmail: Silent British Cinema C.Barr.- Big Studio Production in the Pre-Quota Years, J.Burrows.- Late Silent Britain C.Gledhill.- The British Documentary Film Movement I.Aitken.- British Film and the National Interest, 1927-39 S.Street.- A Despicable Tradition? Quota-quickies in the 1930s L.Napper.- A British Studio System: The Associated British Picture Corporation and the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation in the 1930s T.Ryall.- Low-budget British Films in the 1930s L.Wood.- PART IV: BRITISH CINEMA FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO THE 70S.- The Heart of Britain: British Cinema at War R.Murphy.- Melodrama and Femininity in Second World War British Cinema M.Landy.- No Place Like Home: Powell, Pressburger Utopia A.Moor.- Some Lines of Inquiry into Post-war British Crimes R.Durgnat.- A Song and Dance at the Local: Thoughts on Ealing T.Pulleine.- Methodism versus the Market-place: The Rank Organisation and British Cinema V.Porter.- Bonnie Prince Charlie Revisited: British Costume Film in the 1950s S.Harper.- 'Twilight women' of 1950s British Cinema M.Williams.- Male Stars, Masculinity and British Cinema, 1945-60 A.Spicer.- Beyond the New Wave: Realism in British Cinema, 1959-63 P.Hutchings.- Women and 60s British Cinema: The Development of the 'Darling' Girl C.Geraghty.- Strange Days: British Cinema in the Late 1960s Robert Murphy.- 'Tutte e marchio!': Excess, Masquerade and Performativity in 70s Cinema P.Church Gibson & A.Hill.- PART V: CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CINEMA.- New Romanticism' and the British Avant-Garde Film in the Early 80s M.O'Pray .- Internal Decolonisation? British Cinema in the Celtic Fringe M.McLoone.- Citylife: Urban Fairy-tales in Late 90s British Cinema R.Murphy.- The More Things Change . . . British Cinema in the 90s B.McFarlane.- Travels in Ladland: The British Gangster Film Cycle, 1998-2001 S.Chibnall.- Asian British Cinema since the 1990s B.Korte & C.Sternberg .- Bright Hopes, Dark Dreams: A Guide to New British Cinema R.Murphy.- Not Flagwaving But Flagdrowning, or Postcards from Post-Britain W.Brown.- Postscript: A Short History of British Cinema R.Murphy.- Index.

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