Book Description
A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema – the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past.
Author : M. Kerry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0230349668
A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema – the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past.
Author : M. Boyce
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137015047
Many of the most celebrated British films of the immediate post-war period (1945-55) seem to be occupied with "getting on" with life and offering distraction for postwar audiences. It is the time of the celebrated Ealing comedies, Hue and Cry (1946) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Dickens adaptations, and the most ambitious projects of the Archers. While the war itself is rarely mentioned in these films, the war and the conditions of postwar society lie at the heart of understanding them. While various studies have focused on lesser known realist films, few consider how deeply and completely the war affected British film. Michael W. Boyce considers the preoccupation of these films with profound anxieties and uncertainties about what life was going to be like for postwar Britain, what roles men and women would play, how children would grow up, even what it meant - and what it still means today - to be British.
Author : Nigel Mather
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1526139251
This book explores how British filmmakers of the 2000s engaged with the themes of love, sex and desire in a wide variety of movies. It ranges from powerful contemporary dramas such as Kidulthood, Closer and Disobedience to the lighter mood of the Bridget Jones series. It also analyses how the lives, loves and traumas of historical figures such as Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath and Iris Murdoch were dramatised on film. The book will appeal to literature enthusiasts, film students and readers interested in exploring how we may currently live out our hopes, fears and dreams in relation to sexual matters and affairs of the heart.
Author : Paul Newland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1526102307
British films of the 1970s offers highly detailed and insightful critical analysis of a range of individual films of the period. This analysis draws upon an innovative range of critical methodologies which place the film texts within a rich variety of historical contexts. The book sets out to examine British films of the 1970s in order to get a clearer understanding of two things – the fragmentary state of the filmmaking culture of the period, and the fragmentary nature of the nation that these films represent. It argues that there is no singular narrative to be drawn about British filmmaking in the 1970s, other than the fact that these films offer evidence of a Britain (and ideas of Britishness) characterised by vicissitudes. While this was a period of struggle and instability, it was also a period of openings, of experiment, and of new ideas. Newland looks at many films, including Carry On Girls, O Lucky Man!, That'll be the Day, The Shout, and The Long Good Friday.
Author : Stephen Glynn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3031412222
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of theatrically-released spinoff films derived from British radio and television sitcoms. Regularly maligned as the nadir of British film production and marginalised as a last resort for the financially-bereft industry during the 1970s, this study demonstrates that the sitcom spinoff film has instead been a persistent and important presence in British cinema from the 1940s to the present day, and includes (occasional) works with distinct artistic merit. Alongside an investigation of the economic imperative underpinning these productions, i.e. the exploitation of proven product with a ready-made audience, it is argued that, with a longevity stretching from Arthur Askey and his wartime Band Waggon (1940) to the crew of Kurupt FM and their recent People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan (2021), the British sitcom spinoff can be interpreted as following a full generic ‘life cycle’. Starting with the ‘formative’ stage where works from Hi Gang! (1941) to I Only Arsked! (1958) establish the genre’s characteristics, the spinoff genre moves to its ‘classic’ stage where, secure for form and content, it enjoys considerable popular success with films like Till Death Us Do Part (1969), On the Buses (1971), The Likely Lads (1976) and Rising Damp (1980); the genre’s revival since the late-1990s reveals a more ‘parodic’ final stage, with films like The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse (2005) adopting a consciously self-reflective mode. It is also posited that the sitcom spinoff film is a viable source for social history, with the often-stereotypical re-presentations of characters and events an (often blatant) ideological metonym for the concerns of wider British society, notably in issues of class, race, gender and sexuality.
Author : Will Taylor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1250042011
"Known for his bold and refreshing take on color, Will Taylor, the founder of Bright Bazaar--one of the world's leading interior design blogs--shares his secrets to choosing colors that work for every room in your house. Structured around the different spaces within the home, the book breaks down the how, when, and where of using different shades and color combinations"--
Author : Raymond Briggs
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780194220255
Ideal for the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Author : Roy Perkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838714820
First book on British feature-film editing.
Author : K. Donnelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230597742
In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton's score for Henry V (1944) and Malcolm Arnold's music for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and on the phenomenon of the British film musical.
Author : James Leggott
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1789206510
For over five decades, the Newcastle-based Amber Film and Photography Collective has been a critical (if often unheralded) force within British documentary filmmaking, producing a variety of innovative works focused on working-class society. Situating their acclaimed output within wider social, political, and historical contexts, In Fading Light provides an accessible introduction to Amber’s output from both national and transnational perspectives, including experimental, low-budget documentaries in the 1970s; more prominent feature films in the 1980s; studies of post-industrial life in the 1990s; and the distinctive perils and opportunities posed by the digital era.