Alfred Hitchcock and the British Cinema - Second Edition

Zusatztext "A readable, thoughtful book."--Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Informationen zum Autor Tom Ryall is Principal Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University Klappentext First published in 1986, this standard account of Hitchcock's British films and film-making is now available again in a Second Edition with a new Introduction and Bibliography. It will be welcomed by all students of the film and admirers of Hitchcock. Zusammenfassung An account of Hitchcock's British films and film-making, now in its second edition, this study discusses the man and his work in the context of the history of British cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1996 1. Introduction - Hitchcock and Criticism 2. British Film Culture in the Interwar Period 3. The British Film Industry in the Interwar Years 4. A British Cinema? The British Entertainment Film of the 1930s 5. Hitchcock and the British Cinema 6. Hitchcock and Genre: 'The Classic Thriller Sextet' 7. Hitchcock and Classical Cinema 8. Conclusion - Hitchcock's British Films Filmography Select Bibliography Additional Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Tom Ryall
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780485121223
• ISBN: 978-0-485-12122-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Fernsehen, TV