British Cinema, Past and PresentJustine Ashby, Andrew Higson Psychology Press, 2000 - 385 pages British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s. Providing a historical perspective to the contemporary resurgence of British cinema, this unique anthology brings together leading international scholars to investigate the rich diversity of British film production, from the early sound period of the 1930s to the present day. |
Contents
British cinema from | 4 |
PART I | 19 |
The instability of the national | 35 |
PART II | 49 |
fifty years | 80 |
PART III | 93 |
British cinema and the middlebrow | 110 |
Arthur Askey and the construction of popular entertainment | 124 |
femininity and national identity | 233 |
PART VI | 247 |
reimagining communities | 261 |
the 1990s underclass film masculinity | 274 |
coming to terms with Northern | 288 |
style and authenticity | 301 |
The Belly of an Architect | 330 |
Representations of capitalism history and nation in the work | 339 |
PART IV | 135 |
the films of the Associated British | 152 |
negotiating space for a female | 166 |
the case of Roy Ward Baker | 179 |
PART V | 191 |
This Modern Age and the British nonfiction film | 207 |
social realism and classlessness | 221 |
Robinson in Space | 347 |
British cinema 19302000 | 353 |
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