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Dissolving views : key writings on British cinema /
"British cinema has been far richer and more diverse than is generally recognized, as this collection of key writings on British film culture? from the conversion to sound in the late 1920s to the 1990s? testifies. Dissolving Views brings together a number of important and influential essays an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury academic collections. Film studies : European cinema.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Hitchcock's British Films Revisited; Preface (1995); Hypnagogic structures: Hitchcock's British period (1980); Afterword (1995); Notes; 3. The Production Designer and the Gesamtkunstwerk: German Film Technicians in the British Film Industry of the 1930s; Refugees, residents and the mobility of labour; Continental know-how for British films; Public opinion and the Union; A 'Teutonic' aesthetic?; Note; 4. Engendering the Nation: British Documentary Film, 1930-1939; Notes.
- 5. Neither Here nor There: National Identity in Gainsborough Costume Drama6. The Quality Film Adventure: British Critics and the Cinema, 1942-1948; Critics as contemporary historians; Human like oneself; Light in the darkness; Organic unities; Flow; The visual; In a restrained tone; The truth of the real; Concentrating the mind wonderfully; Duplication; Authenticity; The spirit of reality; The search for documentary; Who makes films?; Industry and audience; Disillusion; Notes; 7. From Holiday Camp to High Camp: Women in British Feature Films, 1945-1951; Notes; 8. Victim: Text as Context.
- Preface (1995)Introduction; Situating Victim: Conceptualization of homosexuality; Situating Victim: Sexuality and British film culture; Reading Vietimi an indictment of repression; Afterword (1995); Notes; 9. Space, Place, Spectacle: Landscape and Townscape in the 'Kitchen Sink' Film; Notes; 10. Landscapes and Stories in 1960s British Realism; The Moment of the uses of literacy; Looking back in gender; Coronation Street, or 'Whatever happened to our Mam?'; Domestic interiors of the British New Wave; Aesthetic strategies and urban landscapes; Note.
- 11. The British Avant-Garde and Art Cinema from the 1970s to the 1990sNote; 12. A Post-national European Cinema: A Consideration of Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II; Note; 13. Beyond The Cinema of Duty'? The Pleasures of Hybridity: Black British Film of the 1980s and 1990s; 14. Crossing Thresholds: The Contemporary British Woman's Film; 15. The Heritage Film and British Cinema; Questions of genre; Historical antecedents; Ambivalence; Narratives of instability, images of stability; The question of emotionality; Melodrama and mise-en-scène; Marginal voices; Trivial histories.
- The question of receptionBibliography; Index.