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Informationen zum Autor I.Q. Hunter is Professor of Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK. He is the author of British Trash Cinema (2013) and Cult Film as a Guide to Life (2016), editor of British Science Fiction Cinema (1999) and co-editor with Laraine Porter of British Comedy Cinema (2012). Laraine Porter is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK. She was Director of the Broadway Media Centre in Nottingham for ten years between 1998 and 2008 and is the co-founder and director of the British Silent Film Festival. She is currently the Principal Investigator on a major three-year AHRC-funded project researching the transition between silent and sound cinema in the UK. Justin Smith is Professor of Media Industries at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Withnail and Us: Cult Films and Film Cults in British Cinema (2010), and, with Sue Harper, British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure (2011). He is Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project Fifty Years of British Music Video (2015-17). Zusammenfassung This book offers a comprehensive and revisionist overview of British cinema as, on the one hand, a commercial entertainment industry and, on the other, a series of institutions centred on economics, funding and relations to government. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I.Q. Hunter, Laraine Porter and Justin Smith PART ONE - BRTISH SILENT CINEMA TO THE COMING OF SOUND: 1895 - 1930 1 The origins of British cinema, 1895 – 1918 Bryony Dixon 2 "Temporary American citizens": British cinema in the 1920s Laraine Porter 3 "King of cameramen": Jack Cox and British cinematography in the silent era Kelly Robinson 4 Designing the silent British film Laurie N. Ede 5 Stardom in silent cinema Adrian Garvey 6 The view from the pit: British silent cinema and the coming of sound Neil Brand 7 The talkies come to Britain: British silent cinema and the transition to sound, 1928 - 1930 Laraine Porter 8 The Tudor Cinema, Leicester: a local case study Guy Barefoot 9 The rise of the Film Society movement Richard MacDonald PART TWO - The classic period: 1930 - 1980 10 Make-believe and realism in British film production: from the coming of sound to the abolition of the National Film Finance Corporation Charles Drazin 11 Local film censorship: the watch committee system Alex Rock 12 Producers and moguls in the British film industry, 1930-1980 Andrew Spicer 13 Émigrés in classic British cinema Andrew Moor 14 "Out of the frying pan, into the fire": British documentary, 1945 - 1952 Steve Foxon 15 "Above and beyond everyday life": the rise and fall of Rank’s contract artists of the 1950s Steve Chibnall 16 "A friend to every exhibitor": National Screen Service and the British trailer industry Keith M. Johnston 17 The Eady Levy, "the envy of most other European nations": runaway productions and the British Film Fund in the Early 1960s James Fenwick 18 The Children’s Film Foundation Andrew Roberts 19 "As long as indifferent sexy films are box office they will abound!!": The Jacey cinema chain and independent distribution and exhibition in 1960s Britain Adrian Smith 20 Cinema and the age of television, 1950-1970 Sian Barber 21 The BBFC and the apparatus of censorship Lucy Brett 22 The British Film Institute: between culture and industry Richard Paterson 23 Trades unions and the British film industry, 1930s–1980s Iain Reid 24 The public film archives and the evolving challenge of screen heritage p...
