British Film
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- Author: Jim Leach, Brock University, Ontario
- Date Published: September 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521652766
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Demonstrating the richness and variety of a national cinema that has traditionally struggled to define itself between the paradigms of Hollywood popular film and European art cinema, this study provides comprehensive coverage of British cinema in general as well as critical discussions of specific films--useful for screenings. Each chapter covers a specific topic and includes detailed descriptions of key films representative of different historical periods.
Read more- A comprehensive guide to the British film tradition
- Provides close readings of specific films
- Written at a level accessible to general readers, but of interest to students and scholars
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"Jim Leach's British Cinema is an engaging introduction to and meditation on what the opening chapter describes as a "complex" and "messy" cinema" Letters in Canada 2004 Jim Ellis
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- Date Published: September 2004
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521652766
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 242 x 162 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.62kg
- contains: 80 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The national health: Great Britain/deep England
2. The magic box: what is British cinema?
3. The common touch: the art of being realistic
4. The mirror crack'd: British expressionism
5. Millions like us: British cinema as popular cinema
6. The stars look down: acting British
7. No sex please - we're British: sex, gender, and the national character
8. Carry on regardless: The British sense of humor
9. Sexy beasts: British monsters
10. The ruling class: ideology and the school movie
11. The long memory: history and heritage
12. I'm British but …: Empire and after.
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