British art cinema : creativity, experimentation and innovation /
This is the first book to provide a direct and comprehensive account of British art cinema. Film history has tended to view British filmmakers as aesthetically conservative, but the truth is they have a long tradition of experiment and artistry, both within and beyond the mainstream. Beginning with...
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21996496 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: British art cinema: creativity, experimentation and innovation / Paul Newland and Brian Hoyle
- 1. 'Art cinema', 1920s British film culture: Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Asquith / Tom Ryall
- 2. Humphrey Jennings: of images, poetry and <i>Pandaemonium
- </i> / Owen Evans
- 3. Out of the war, on with the arts: cultural politics and art films in post-war Britain / Katerina Loukopoulou
- 4. Attitudes towards experiment in British cinema: the amateur art films of Enrico Cocozza / Ryan Shand
- 5. Art cinema, British production and the 1960s / Duncan Petrie
- 6. Happy accident: the symbiosis of Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter / Peter Jameson
- 7. The parameters of British art cinema: a case study of John Krish / Robert Shail
- 8. The reputation of Nicolas Roeg / Paul Newland
- 9. 'As the first black face on the scene, I had to push the doors open': Horace Ové and <i>Pressure</i> (1975) / Sally Shaw
- 10. Art cinema and the British poetic realist tradition / David Forrest
- 11. The third avant garde: Black Audio Film Collective and Latin America / Paul Elliott
- 12. The rise of British art cinema in the 1980s / John Hill
- 13. Derek Jarman, trance films and medieval art cinema / Jo George
- 14. Twin traditions: the biopic and the composed film in British art cinema / Brian Hoyle
- 15. Don Boyd and the business of art cinema / Phil Wickham
- 16. Shakespearean film as art cinema: <i>Stage Beauty</i> as a cerebral retort to Hollywood / Sarah Martindale
- 17. Boundary crossings and inter-subjective imaginings: Sarah Turner's <i>Perestroika </i> / Kim Knowles
- Index.