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  • - Images of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema
     
    873,-

    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.

  • av James Chapman
    262,-

    In this new edition of Licence To Thrill, James Chapman builds upon the success of his classic work, regarded as the definitive scholarly study of the history of the James Bond film series from the first picture, Dr No (1962), to the present. He considers the origins of the films in the spy thrillers of Ian Fleming and examines the production histories of the films in the contexts of the British and international film industries. This edition includes a new introduction and chapters on Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021). Chapman explores how the films have changed over time in response to developments in the wider film culture and society at large. He charts the ever-evolving Bond formula, analysing the films' representations of nationhood, class, and gender in a constantly shifting cinematic and ideological landscape.

  • - The World Beyond Disney
     
    1 962

    Offering an examination of films for child and family audiences in a global context, this book encompasses both live-action and animated films from the Hollywood, British, Australian, East German, Russian, Indian, Japanese and Brazilian cinemas.

  • - Violent Crowds and Progressive Politics in American Film
    av Doug Dibbern
    1 826

    The large literature about politics of Hollywood in the period of McCarthy and the blacklist has largely overlooked political filmmaking during those agitated years. This title examines the vibrant cycle of independently produced political films made while House Committee on Un-American Activities was investigating communists in the film industry.

  • av Andrew Kelly
    647 - 2 195

    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

  • av Jonathan Murray
    1 973

    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.

  • av Geoffrey Macnab
    637 - 2 148

    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.

  • - Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain
    av Jeffrey (Lancaster University Richards
    389,-

    The period between the two world wars is often named 'the golden age of the cinema' in Britain. This title examines the role of going to the pictures in people's lives during a tough period when people regularly spent a few pence to purchase ready-made dreams watching Gracie Fields, Robert Donat and the other stars of the day.

  • - From the 1920s to the Present
    av Mark Glancy
    1 973

    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
    av Tony Aldgate
    460

    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.

  • - The State, Propaganda and Consensus
    av PhD Tony Shaw
    378,-

    Uncovers British cinema's contribution to Cold War propaganda and to the development of a popular consensus on Cold War issues. This book focuses on an age in which the 'first Cold War' dictated international politics. It explores the relationship between film-makers, censors and Whitehall.

  • av David Eldridge
    1 679

    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
    av Colin Schindler
    637 - 2 195

    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.

  • - Cinema and Cultural Memory
    av Annette Kuhn
    400

    Exploring cinemagoing and cinema culture, this book considers the 1930s, from Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald to Fred and Ginger. It shows how audiences looked to their screen heroines and heroes for inspiration, and explores the role of cinemagoing in make-believe, friendship and growing up.

  • - An Alternative History of the British Cinema 1929-1939
     
    378,-

    The 1930s was a seminal period in British cinema, when stars were born world-class, directors emerged and films became serious business. In this work, film historians chart a map of 1930s British cinema. They reassess the films, stars, genres and directors omitted from accounts of the decade.

  • - Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema
    av Colin McArthur
    1 826

    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".

  • - Postmodern Cities, European Cinema
    av Ewa Mazierska & Laura Rascaroli
    393 - 1 973

    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.

  • - A Cinema of Magic Spaces
    av Andrew Moor
    358,-

    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.

  • - A History, from Shirley Temple to Harry Potter
    av Noel (Liverpool Hope University Brown
    378,-

    The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book provides the history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its development from its beginnings in the 1930s to its global box-office dominance today.

  • - Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-45
    av Prof James (University of Leicester Chapman
    416,-

    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
    av Sarah Smith
    446 - 1 679

    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.

  • - War, Globalisation and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush
    av Ben Dickenson
    354,-

    Provides an insightful take on modern American cinema's relations with, and influence on Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations. The author tells the story of the corporate take-over of the movies in the 1970s, and the subsequent transformation of Hollywood into the dominant force in the global media industry.

  • - Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48
    av Robert Murphy
    637 - 2 193

    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.

  • - Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present
    av Jeffrey (Lancaster University Richards
    389,-

    This revised edition up-dates the authors' demonstration of how a close study of films, in their historical and cultural settings, can enrich understanding of both cinema and historical events.

  • - National Identity and the British Historical Film
    av James Chapman
    378 - 1 962

    Looking closely at the issues that they present, from gender, class and ethnicity to militarism and imperialism, he also discusses controversies over historical accuracy, and the ways in which devices such as voice overs, title captions, and visual references to photographs and paintings assert a sense of historical.

  • - British Films in the United States and Their Censorship, 1933-1960
    av Anthony Slide
    1 459,-

    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
    av Geoff King
    402

    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.

  • av David Welch
    342

    A comprehensive analysis of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social and economic contexts. It considers more than 100 films, identifying those aspects of Nazi ideology that were concealed in the framework of popular entertainment under the direction of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister.

  • - Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany
    av Professor Richard (Swansea University Taylor
    402

    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.

  • - Hollywood Western and American National Identity
    av Michael D. Coyne
    446,-

    This text employs the Western film as a vital medium for examining the many tensions - political, racial, sexual, social and religious - which have beset modern America from "Stagecoach" and the Depression's last years to the decline of the genre in the 1970s.

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