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All our yesterdays : 90 years of British cinema

Title
All our yesterdays : 90 years of British cinema / edited by Charles Barr.
Publication
London : BFI Pub. : in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Barr, Charles.
  • British Film Institute.
  • Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Description
ix, 446 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Motion pictures > Great Britain > History
  • Motion pictures
  • Film
  • Geschichte
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Cinéma > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire et critique
  • cinéma anglais > 1896 > 1986 > études diverses
  • Film
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 432-435.
Contents
Introduction: Amnesia and schizophrenia / Charles Barr -- Cinema and state / Julian Petley -- Under the shadow of Hollywood / Robert Murphy -- 'Britain's outstanding contribution to the film': the documentary-realist tradition / Andrew Higson -- The lost continent / Julian Petley -- A literary cinema?: British films and British novels / Brian McFarlane -- 'Sister of the stage': British film and British theatre / Geoff Brown -- Music hall and British cinema / Andy Medhurst -- Broadcasting and cinema: 1: converging histories / John Caughie -- Broadcasting and cinema: 2: screens within screens / Charles Barr -- The 'other cinema' in Britain: unfinished business in oppositional and independent film, 1929-1984 / Sylvia Harvey -- Scotland: strategies of centralisation / Alastair Michie -- Live action: a brief history of British animation / Elaine Burrows -- Riff-raff: British cinema and the underworld / Robert Murphy -- The Film Society, 1925-1939 / Jen Samson -- Fitz: the old man of the screen / Denis Gifford -- Humphrey Jennings: surrealist observer / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- Paul Robeson: the Black man as film hero / Jeffrey Richards -- Diana Dors / Christine Geraghty -- Dirk Bogarde / Andy Medhurst -- Mandy: daughter of transition / Pam Cook -- The ship that died of shame / Jim Cook -- Frenzy: a return to Britain / Peter Hutchings.
ISBN
  • 0851701795
  • 9780851701790
LCCN
88137100
OCLC
  • ocm17982289
  • 17982289
  • SCSB-1160523
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library