Description
Book SynopsisBritish 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 and the light they throw on 70 or so years of British cinema history makes this volume a vital, provocative and highly informative collection.
Table of Contents1. Introduction
Andrew Higson 2. Hitchcock’s British Films Revisited
Charles Barr 3. The Production Designer and the
Gesamtkunstwerk: German Film Technicians in the British Film Industry of the 1930s
Tim Bergfelder 4. Engendering the Nation: British Documentary Film 1930-1939
Kathryn Dodd and Philip Dodd 5. Neither Here Nor There: National Identity in Gainsborough Costume Drama
Pam Cook 6. The Quality Film Adventure: British Critics and the Cinema, 1942-1948
John Ellis 7. From
Holiday Camp to High Camp: Women in British Feature Films, 1945-1951
Sue Harper 8.
Victim: Text as Context
Andy Medhurst 9. Space, Place, Spectacle: Landscape and Townscape in the ‘Kitchen Sink’ Film
Andrew Higson 10. Landscapes and Stories in the 1960s British Realism
Terry Lovell 11. The British Avant-Garde and Art Cinema from the 1970s to the 1990s
Michael O’Pray 12. A Post-National European Cinema: A Consideration of Derek Jarman’s
The Tempest and
Edward II Colin MacCabe 13. Beyond ‘The Cinema of Duty’? The Pleasures of Hybridity: Black British Film of the 1980s and 1990s
Sarita Malik 14. Crossing Thresholds: The Contemporary British Woman’s Film
Justine King 15. The Heritage Film and British Cinema
Andrew Higson Bibliography Index
