{"product_id":"dissolving-views-9781474290647","title":"Dissolving Views","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBritish 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. \u003ci\u003eDissolving Views\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction \u003ci\u003eAndrew Higson\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Hitchcock’s British Films Revisited \u003ci\u003eCharles Barr\u003c\/i\u003e 3. The Production Designer and the \u003ci\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/i\u003e: German Film Technicians in the British Film Industry of the 1930s \u003ci\u003eTim Bergfelder\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Engendering the Nation: British Documentary Film 1930-1939 \u003ci\u003eKathryn Dodd and Philip Dodd\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Neither Here Nor There: National Identity in Gainsborough Costume Drama \u003ci\u003ePam Cook\u003c\/i\u003e 6. The Quality Film Adventure: British Critics and the Cinema, 1942-1948 \u003ci\u003eJohn Ellis\u003c\/i\u003e 7. From \u003ci\u003eHoliday Camp\u003c\/i\u003e to High Camp: Women in British Feature Films, 1945-1951 \u003ci\u003eSue Harper\u003c\/i\u003e 8. \u003ci\u003eVictim\u003c\/i\u003e: Text as Context \u003ci\u003eAndy Medhurst\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Space, Place, Spectacle: Landscape and Townscape in the ‘Kitchen Sink’ Film \u003ci\u003eAndrew Higson\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Landscapes and Stories in the 1960s British Realism \u003ci\u003eTerry Lovell\u003c\/i\u003e 11. The British Avant-Garde and Art Cinema from the 1970s to the 1990s \u003ci\u003eMichael O’Pray\u003c\/i\u003e 12. A Post-National European Cinema: A Consideration of Derek Jarman’s \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEdward II Colin MacCabe\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Beyond ‘The Cinema of Duty’? The Pleasures of Hybridity: Black British Film of the 1980s and 1990s \u003ci\u003eSarita Malik\u003c\/i\u003e 14. Crossing Thresholds: The Contemporary British Woman’s Film \u003ci\u003eJustine King\u003c\/i\u003e 15. The Heritage Film and British Cinema \u003ci\u003eAndrew Higson\u003c\/i\u003e Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084950303063,"sku":"9781474290647","price":110.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474290647.jpg?v=1762207683","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dissolving-views-9781474290647","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}