Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Great British Movies Great British Movies Don Shiach Which British movies are the best that this country has produced? In this volume Don Shiach encapsulates the peaks of the British film achievement from the beginning of the sound era to the first dec… OL15171700W
Film and the end of empire Film and the end of empire Lee Grieveson "In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema at the height of imperalism, to moments… OL16318694W
Lindsay Anderson Lindsay Anderson John Izod,Karl Magee,Kathryn Hannan,Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard xii, 334 p. : 23 cm OL20408787W
Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain Matthew Jones For the last fifty years, discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by the view that the genre reflected US paranoia about Soviet brainwashing and the nuclear bomb. However, class… OL20523010W
The Beatles on Film The Beatles on Film Roland Reiter This book provides the production history and a contextual interpretation of The Beatles' movies (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) and describes their ability to project the gr… OL23499133W
Edge of the world Edge of the world Powell, Michael xvi, 334 p. : 22 cm OL2407904W
Film freak Film freak Christopher Fowler It's the late 1970s, and Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas. Longing to put his dreams on the screen and become a famous screenwriter, he… OL24264889W
Thorold Dickinson and the British cinema Thorold Dickinson and the British cinema Jeffrey J. Richards 193 p., [8] p. of plates : 23 cm OL2626371W
Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' Stanley Kubrick A comic-book-like adaptation of the film featuring hundreds of stills from the movie. OL513424W
The British film business The British film business Bill Baillieu "This book traces the history of the British film business from the days of the early pioneers, through its near collapse in the immediate post-war era to the current age of digitally enhanced blockb… OL5957534W
Wales and Cinema Wales and Cinema David Berry This is the first full history of cinema in Wales. Based on a wealth of new research, this book follows the story of film in Wales from the Edison 'peepshows' seen in Cardiff in 1894 to the latest pr… OL8338926W