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  • - British Cinema in the Second World War
    av Tony Aldgate
    460,-

    At the outbreak of the WWII, all cinemas in Britain were closed. Ten days later, they were opened again as a way of boosting morale. Over the next six years, some 300 feature films and thousands of short films were produced in what is seen as British cinema's 'finest hour'. This work charts this period through the eyes of thirteen key films.

  • av James Chapman
    261,-

    In this new edition of Licence To Thrill, James Chapman builds upon the success of his classic work, regarded as the definitive scholarly study of the history of the James Bond film series from the first picture, Dr No (1962), to the present. He considers the origins of the films in the spy thrillers of Ian Fleming and examines the production histories of the films in the contexts of the British and international film industries. This edition includes a new introduction and chapters on Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021). Chapman explores how the films have changed over time in response to developments in the wider film culture and society at large. He charts the ever-evolving Bond formula, analysing the films' representations of nationhood, class, and gender in a constantly shifting cinematic and ideological landscape.

  • - British Film Censorship in Action 1913-1972
    av James Robertson & James C Robertson
    578 - 2 141,-

    How does film censorship work in Britain? Robertson examines the history of the British Board of Film Censors and shows that censorship has had a greater influence on film history than is often assumed.

  • - Christianity and Classic European Cinema
    av Mark (University College London & UK) Le Fanu
    364 - 1 387,-

  • - Beyond the Western
    av UK) Richards & Jeffrey (Lancaster University
    534 - 1 229,-

  • - Film Actors and Aspiration between the Wars
    av UK) O'Rourke & Chris (University of Lincoln
    394 - 1 828,-

    A young man leaves his home to look for work in the cinema industry and is not heard of again, disappearing after a first rejection: one hopeful actor of hundreds seeking a route to stardom.

  • - From the Thief of Bagdad to Wallace and Gromit
    av UK) Brown & Noel (Liverpool Hope University
    534 - 1 975,-

    Noel Brown celebrates and explores popular children's films from the Harry Potter franchise to Paddington, revealing the industrial, social and cultural history behind cherished classics.

  • - Reframing Gender, Race and the 'Other' in Film
    av UK) Broughton & Dr Lee (Independent Scholar
    534 - 1 828,-

    Focuses on previously unstudied Italian, German and British films

  • - From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan
    av UK) Richards & Jeffrey (Lancaster University
    548 - 1 828,-

    Where Hollywood and China meet

  • - The World Beyond Disney
     
    1 960,-

    Offering an examination of films for child and family audiences in a global context, this book encompasses both live-action and animated films from the Hollywood, British, Australian, East German, Russian, Indian, Japanese and Brazilian cinemas.

  • - American Identity and the Cinema of International Relations
    av Elizabeth Rawitsch
    1 828,-

    This innovative book offers a startlingly fresh perspective on one of the most iconic figures in American film history.

  • - Violent Crowds and Progressive Politics in American Film
    av Doug Dibbern
    1 828,-

    The large literature about politics of Hollywood in the period of McCarthy and the blacklist has largely overlooked political filmmaking during those agitated years. This title examines the vibrant cycle of independently produced political films made while House Committee on Un-American Activities was investigating communists in the film industry.

  • av Andrew Kelly
    621 - 2 155,-

    An exploration of the development of anti-war cinema in Britain, America, Germany and France from the ground-breaking Lay Down Your Arms in 1914 through to Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory

  • av Jonathan Murray
    1 975,-

    Examining the diverse industrial, institutional and cultural contexts which have allowed Scottish film to evolve and grow since the 1970s, this book narrates a story of interest to any student of contemporary British film.

  • av Geoffrey Macnab
    607 - 2 108,-

    Combining archival research and interviews with Rank's contemporaries and family, this study charts the 1940s "golden era" of the British film industry that Rank, having bought the Odeon and Gaumont British chains and made inroads into the American market, helped to create.

  • - From the 1920s to the Present
    av Mark Glancy
    1 975,-

    Investigates Hollywood's ability to appeal to British filmgoers, as well as its ability to alienate, enrage and amuse them across films ranging from The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1922) to The Patriot (2000).

  • - Postmodern Cities, European Cinema
    av Ewa Mazierska & Laura Rascaroli
    391 - 1 975,-

    Travelling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this study investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema, showing how European films represent these cities across old and new Europe. It tackles changes wrought under the effects of political change.

  • av David Eldridge
    1 681,-

    Focusing on the 1950s when Hollywood's interest in the past was at its peak, this book reconstructs how filmmakers understood their treatment of the past, suggesting why many of them saw their work as superior to that of professional historians. It explains how and why Hollywood blurs the boundaries between fiction and historical reality.

  • - Cinema and American Society 1929-1939
    av Colin Schindler
    549 - 2 155,-

    A detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s. Schindler illustrates how the studios helped to foster ideas of social unity and patriotism.

  • - Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema
    av Colin McArthur
    1 828,-

    The films "Brigadoon" and "Braveheart" have an enormous resonance and provide general impressions of "Scottishness". This provocative study discusses the films' representations of Scotland and the Scots, looking at how Scotland is (mis)recognized and yet often comes to be "known".

  • - Images of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema
     
    871,-

    This book questions how films create and interpret what Christmas means to societies across the Anglo-Saxon and European world, examining topics such as Santa Claus in cinema, Dickens and Christmas and Spanish and German seasonal creations. In the CINEMA AND SOCIETY series.

  • - A Cinema of Magic Spaces
    av Andrew Moor
    357,-

    Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made a range of films, from "The Spy in Black" and "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" to "A Canterbury Tale" and "The Red Shoes". This book looks at these classic films to explore their complex relationship to national identity, and their interest in exile, borderlands, utopias, escapism, art and fantasy.

  • - A History, from Shirley Temple to Harry Potter
    av Noel (Liverpool Hope University Brown
    380,-

    The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book provides the history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its development from its beginnings in the 1930s to its global box-office dominance today.

  • - Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-45
    av Prof James (University of Leicester Chapman
    416,-

    Gives a picture of popular consensus between the government and the film industry over the cinematic representation of Britain and the British at war. It examines the role of the cinema as a vehicle of propaganda, and shows the relationship between the Ministry of Information and the film industry.

  • - From Dracula to the Dead End Kids
    av Sarah Smith
    445 - 1 681,-

    Exploring debates about children and how they use and respond to the media, the author researches attempts to control children's viewing, the ideas that supported these approaches and the extent to which they were successful. She develops a proposition that children are agents in the regulation of their own viewing and not passive consumers.

  • - Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48
    av Robert Murphy
    607 - 1 953,-

    Looking at popular British film in the 1940s, Realism and Tinsel goes beyond the established histories of the Ealing Comedies to excavate a rich tradition of melodrama, morbid thrillers and costume pictures.

  • - British Films in the United States and Their Censorship, 1933-1960
    av Anthony Slide
    1 460,-

    Making use of the files of the US Production Code Administration, this is a film-by-film study of the way in which British films were censored in the USA between 1933 and 1960.

  • - Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster
    av Geoff King
    401,-

    This text focuses on the dynamic relationship between narrative and spectacle in Hollywood cinema. It shows how narrative - far from being eclipsed by special effects - remains integral to the cinematic "blockbuster", citing the continuing relevance of the mythic American frontier.

  • - Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany
    av Professor Richard (Swansea University Taylor
    401,-

    Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Hitler and Goebbels regarded cinema as their most important weapon for mass political propaganda. This book examines the ways in which cinema was used for political purposes by two of the most highly politicised societies in 20th-century European history.

  • - Hollywood Western and American National Identity
    av Michael D. Coyne
    445,-

    This text employs the Western film as a vital medium for examining the many tensions - political, racial, sexual, social and religious - which have beset modern America from "Stagecoach" and the Depression's last years to the decline of the genre in the 1970s.

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