British silent cinema / Jon Burrows -- Cinema in Ireland from the 1890s to the 1930s / Kevin Rockett -- British cinema in the 1930s / Lawrence Napper -- British cinema and the Second World War / James Chapman -- The 1950s and 1960s / Melanie Williams -- Irish cinema's first wave: histories and...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Hill, John (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Hoboken, NJ Wiley-Blackwell 2019
Schriftenreihe:	Wiley Blackwell companions to national cinemas
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Film Irland Großbritannien Motion pictures / Great Britain Motion pictures / Ireland Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	British silent cinema / Jon Burrows -- Cinema in Ireland from the 1890s to the 1930s / Kevin Rockett -- British cinema in the 1930s / Lawrence Napper -- British cinema and the Second World War / James Chapman -- The 1950s and 1960s / Melanie Williams -- Irish cinema's first wave: histories and legacies of the 1970s and 1980s / Maeve Connolly -- History, heritage and the national past in British cinema of the 1980s and 1990s / Geoff Eley -- Filing with words: British cinema, literature and adaptation / Christine Geraghty -- British film genres / Peter Hutchings -- British cinema and authorship / Sheldon Hall -- Acting and stardom / Jim Leach -- British and Irish film music / Kevin Donnelly -- Irish cinema and international screen culture / Martin McLoone -- Vernacular visions: Ireland and accented cinema / Luke Gibbons -- British film industry and policy: issues and debates / Duncan Petrie -- British cinema and technology / Sarah Street -- Irish film: industry and policy / Roddy Flynn -- British cinema and television / Dave Rolinson -- Gender, sexuality and British cinema / Niall Richardson -- Space, place and architecture in British films: the case of Last resort (2000) / Paul Newland -- Gender, sexuality and Irish film / Debbie Ging -- Space and place in Irish cinema / Conn Holohan -- The proletariat and British cinema / Paul Dave -- Race and ethnicity in British cinema / Sarita Malik -- The Englishness of British cinema: beyond the valley of the corn dollies / Julian Petley -- Trainspotter's delight: issues and themes in Scottish film criticism / Jonathan Murray -- The cinema has two tongues: the cinema cultures of Wales / Daryl Perrins -- Screening Irish-America / Ruth Barton -- Transnational strategies in British cinema: the example of Slumdog millionaire / Jim English "The cinema was thus established as a medium of mass entertainment in Britain by the early 1910s, but it is a striking fact that in the present day there is very little knowledge of, or familiarity with, silent British films, directors and stars amongst the general public and even many cinephiles. A 1995 documentary - Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears - commissioned from one of the country's leading contemporary directors by the British Film Institute, to celebrate the centenary of cinema, straightforwardly concluded that 'To all intents and purposes there'd been no silent film industry in Britain'"--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xii, 593 Seiten Illustrationen, Portraits
ISBN:	9781118477519