Dissolving views : key writings on British cinema / / edited by Andrew Higson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798659003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020; London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020
• ISBN: 0-304-33529-0; 1-4742-9066-3; 1-4742-9065-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Collana: Bloomsbury academic collections. Film studies : European cinema
• Disciplina: 791.43/0941
• Soggetti: Motion pictures - Great Britain - History; Films, cinema
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published in 1996 by Cassell.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 -- Introduction; 2 -- Hitchcock's British Films Revisited; Preface (1995); Hypnagogic structures: Hitchcock's British period (1980); Afterword (1995); Notes; 3 -- The Production Designer and the Gesamtkunstwerk: German Film Technicians in the British Film Industry of the 1930s; Refugees, residents and the mobility of labour; Continental know-how for British films; Public opinion and the Union; A 'Teutonic' aesthetic?; Note; 4 -- Engendering the Nation: British Documentary Film, 1930-1939; Notes.; 5 -- Neither Here nor There: National Identity in Gainsborough Costume Drama6 -- The Quality Film Adventure: British Critics and the Cinema, 1942-1948; Critics as contemporary historians; Human like oneself; Light in the darkness; Organic unities; Flow; The visual; In a restrained tone; The truth of the real; Concentrating the mind wonderfully; Duplication; Authenticity; The spirit of reality; The search for documentary; Who makes films?; Industry and audience; Disillusion; Notes; 7 -- From Holiday Camp to High Camp: Women in British Feature Films, 1945-1951; Notes; 8 -- Victim: Text as Context.; Preface (1995)Introduction; Situating Victim: Conceptualization of ; homosexuality; Situating Victim: Sexuality and British film culture; Reading Vietimi an indictment of repression; Afterword (1995); Notes; 9 -- Space, Place, Spectacle: Landscape and Townscape in the 'Kitchen Sink' Film; Notes; 10 -- Landscapes and Stories in 1960s British Realism; The Moment of the uses of literacy; Looking back in gender; Coronation Street, or 'Whatever happened to our Mam?'; Domestic interiors of the British New Wave; Aesthetic strategies and urban landscapes; Note.; 11 -- The British Avant-Garde and Art Cinema from the 1970s to the 1990sNote; 12 -- A Post-national European Cinema: A Consideration of Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II; Note; 13 -- Beyond The Cinema of Duty'? The Pleasures of Hybridity: Black British Film of the 1980s and 1990s; 14 -- Crossing Thresholds: The Contemporary British Woman's Film; 15 -- The Heritage Film and British Cinema; Questions of genre; Historical antecedents; Ambivalence; Narratives of instability, images of stability; The question of emotionality; Melodrama and mise-en-scène; Marginal voices; Trivial histories.; The question of receptionBibliography; Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "British 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. Dissolving Views 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."--