LEADER 04693nam 2200625 450 001 9910798659003321 005 20201023111955.0 010 $a0-304-33529-0 010 $a1-4742-9066-3 010 $a1-4742-9065-5 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474290661 035 $a(CKB)3710000000840820 035 $a(EBL)4659841 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4659841 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11252512 035 $a(OCoLC)957525032 035 $a(OCoLC)1201426776 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781474290661 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4659841 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000840820 100 $a20201023d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aDissolving views $ekey writings on British cinema /$fedited by Andrew Higson 210 1$aLondon, England :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2020. 210 2$aLondon, England :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2020 215 $a1 online resource (290 p.) 225 1 $aBloomsbury academic collections. Film studies : European cinema 300 $aOriginally published in 1996 by Cassell. 311 $a1-4742-9064-7 311 $a0-304-33528-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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. 327 $a5 -- 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. 327 $aPreface (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. 327 $a11 -- 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-sce?ne; Marginal voices; Trivial histories. 327 $aThe question of receptionBibliography; Index. 330 $a"British cinema has been far richer and more diverse than is generally recognized, as this collection of key writings on British film culture ? from the conversion to sound in the late 1920s to the 1990s ? testifies. Dissolving Views brings together a number of important and influential essays and the light they throw on 70 or so years of British cinema history makes this volume a vital, provocative and highly informative collection."--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aBloomsbury academic collections.$pFilm studies : European cinema. 606 $aMotion pictures$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aFilms, cinema$2bicssc 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 615 7$aFilms, cinema 676 $a791.43/0941 702 $aHigson$b Andrew 801 0$bN 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798659003321 996 $aDissolving views$93671186 997 $aUNINA