Research Catalog

Title

A critical history of the British cinema / Roy Armes.

Author

Armes, Roy.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.

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Description

374 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

The names that stand out in the annals of British film history are set into historical perspective in this comprehensive study. It questions some of the myths surrounding British cinema and probes the strengths of a national output conditioned in its practice by a love-hate relationship with Hollywood and customarily judged in terms of its predominantly realist approach.

Series Statement

Cinema two

Subject

Motion pictures > Great Britain > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 345-355.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The invention of the cinema -- The beginnings of an industry -- The birth of narrative cinema -- The end of the silent era -- The 1930s sound film -- Style in the interwar years -- Hitchcock and Asquith -- Korda and the dominant myths of the 1930s -- Grierson and the documentary idea -- Documentary at war -- Humphrey Jennings -- Rank and the entertainment film -- Balcon at Ealing -- Literary cinema -- Asquith, Reed and Lean -- Two individualists -- Powell and Dickinson -- Formulas for success -- From free cinema to Woodfall -- The foreign impact -- Polanski, Losey, Kubrick -- An art of the real -- Russell, Loach and Watkins -- Alternative cinemas.

ISBN

0195200438 :

LCCN

^^^77073893^//r88

OCLC

• 4173681
• SCSB-10238787

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library