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  • by Andrew Kelly
    £40.99 - 123.99

    An exploration of the development of anti-war cinema in Britain, America, Germany and France from the ground-breaking Lay Down Your Arms in 1914 through to Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory

  • by Jonathan Murray
    £134.99

    Examining the diverse industrial, institutional and cultural contexts which have allowed Scottish film to evolve and grow since the 1970s, this book narrates a story of interest to any student of contemporary British film.

  • by Geoffrey Macnab
    £39.99 - 123.99

    Combining archival research and interviews with Rank's contemporaries and family, this study charts the 1940s "golden era" of the British film industry that Rank, having bought the Odeon and Gaumont British chains and made inroads into the American market, helped to create.

  • - From the 1920s to the Present
    by Mark Glancy
    £134.99

    Investigates Hollywood's ability to appeal to British filmgoers, as well as its ability to alienate, enrage and amuse them across films ranging from The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1922) to The Patriot (2000).

  • - British Cinema in the Second World War
    by Tony Aldgate
    £29.99

    At the outbreak of the WWII, all cinemas in Britain were closed. Ten days later, they were opened again as a way of boosting morale. Over the next six years, some 300 feature films and thousands of short films were produced in what is seen as British cinema's 'finest hour'. This work charts this period through the eyes of thirteen key films.

  • by David Eldridge
    £114.49

    Focusing on the 1950s when Hollywood's interest in the past was at its peak, this book reconstructs how filmmakers understood their treatment of the past, suggesting why many of them saw their work as superior to that of professional historians. It explains how and why Hollywood blurs the boundaries between fiction and historical reality.

  • - Cinema and American Society 1929-1939
    by Colin Schindler
    £39.99 - 123.99

    A detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s. Schindler illustrates how the studios helped to foster ideas of social unity and patriotism.

  • - Postmodern Cities, European Cinema
    by Ewa Mazierska & Laura Rascaroli
    £26.99 - 134.99

    Travelling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this study investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinema, showing how European films represent these cities across old and new Europe. It tackles changes wrought under the effects of political change.

  • - Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema
    by Colin McArthur
    £124.49

    The films "Brigadoon" and "Braveheart" have an enormous resonance and provide general impressions of "Scottishness". This provocative study discusses the films' representations of Scotland and the Scots, looking at how Scotland is (mis)recognized and yet often comes to be "known".

  • - Images of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema
     
    £63.49

    This book questions how films create and interpret what Christmas means to societies across the Anglo-Saxon and European world, examining topics such as Santa Claus in cinema, Dickens and Christmas and Spanish and German seasonal creations. In the CINEMA AND SOCIETY series.

  • - A Cinema of Magic Spaces
    by Andrew Moor
    £22.49

    Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made a range of films, from "The Spy in Black" and "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" to "A Canterbury Tale" and "The Red Shoes". This book looks at these classic films to explore their complex relationship to national identity, and their interest in exile, borderlands, utopias, escapism, art and fantasy.

  • - Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-45
    by Prof James (University of Leicester Chapman
    £26.99

    Gives a picture of popular consensus between the government and the film industry over the cinematic representation of Britain and the British at war. It examines the role of the cinema as a vehicle of propaganda, and shows the relationship between the Ministry of Information and the film industry.

  • - From Dracula to the Dead End Kids
    by Sarah Smith
    £28.99 - 114.49

    Exploring debates about children and how they use and respond to the media, the author researches attempts to control children's viewing, the ideas that supported these approaches and the extent to which they were successful. She develops a proposition that children are agents in the regulation of their own viewing and not passive consumers.

  • - Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48
    by Robert Murphy
    £39.99 - 139.99

    Looking at popular British film in the 1940s, Realism and Tinsel goes beyond the established histories of the Ealing Comedies to excavate a rich tradition of melodrama, morbid thrillers and costume pictures.

  • - British Films in the United States and Their Censorship, 1933-1960
    by Anthony Slide
    £98.99

    Making use of the files of the US Production Code Administration, this is a film-by-film study of the way in which British films were censored in the USA between 1933 and 1960.

  • - Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster
    by Geoff King
    £25.49

    This text focuses on the dynamic relationship between narrative and spectacle in Hollywood cinema. It shows how narrative - far from being eclipsed by special effects - remains integral to the cinematic "blockbuster", citing the continuing relevance of the mythic American frontier.

  • - Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany
    by Professor Richard (Swansea University Taylor
    £25.49

    Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Hitler and Goebbels regarded cinema as their most important weapon for mass political propaganda. This book examines the ways in which cinema was used for political purposes by two of the most highly politicised societies in 20th-century European history.

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