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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"British Cinema"”.
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A very British spectacle? : critical reception of the fantasy genre within contemporary British cinema
In the period since 2001, cinema has witnessed what David Butler refers to as a ‘golden age’ of fantasy film production. The majority of fantasy films released during this time have originated from British literature, and have to some extent been produced and located within Britain, showcasing a …
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Realism, Fantasy, and the ‘H’ Certificate: Rethinking Horror Cinema in Britain during the 1940s
Existing research on British cinema during the 1940s has often assumed an opposition between realism and fantasy or, as it is also known, 'realism and tinsel'. However, through an analysis of contemporary critical reception and censorship discourses, it becomes apparent how this division was …
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Margaret Rutherford, Alastair Sim, eccentricity and the British character actor
… Alastair Sim's work, and its significance for British cinema as a whole. In order to determine their enduring appeal, the first section, 'Biographical Perspectives', uses the actors' respective biographies to combine their very distinct identities, anchor them in the time in which they lived, …
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The Ministry of Information and the British Film Hero during World War 2
… relationship between the government and the British film studios, relating to feature film content and production, during the period of the Second World War. It explores government policy and institutional organisation, and investigates the impact of underlying film production processes and …
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Comedy in British and Italian film from 1949 to 1975
This thesis uses six Italian and British film comedies released between 1949 and 1975 - drawn from the canon of commedia all'italiana, 'Ealing comedies' and Monty Python films - as case studies for a comparison of comic modes in Italian and British cinema. By placing the films within the historical …
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'Toast and Torpedoes': World War Two Naval Warfare on Film 1939-1960
… in World War Two was presented in popular British cinema between 1939 and 1960. The study examines the distinctive nature of naval war films, notable for the way in which both the warlike and domestic are mixed, and uses this as the starting-point to consider what the films reveal of …
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THE COMMUNICATING VILLAGE: HUMPHREY JENNINGS AND SURREALISM
… The thesis asserts that there is a specifically British form of surrealism that has developed from the historical situation of Britain in the period from 1936 to 1946, one that draws from the national identity of Britain. The symbolic domain of British surrealism and its praxis can read in the …
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Corrupted, Tormented and Damned: Reframing British Exploitation Cinema and The films of Robert Hartford-Davis
… as an alternative to mainstream Hollywood cinema, and served as a way of introducing to audiences shocking, controversial themes, as well as narratives that major American studios were reluctant to explore. Whereas American exploitation cinema developed in parallel to mainstream Hollywood, …
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Relationality and Opacity: Approaching Trans in Cinema
… to attend to modes of trans relationality in cinema. Recent scholarship, most notably by Eliza Steinbock and Cáel M. Keegan, has pictured cinema as a privileged medium for diversifying the range of trans-related effects and affects available to film audiences, exploring how trans embodiments …
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The British historical film, 1930-1990.
… goals through a substantial generic study of the British historical film, utilizing notions of myth and ideas derived from reception studies.</p> <p>In terms of overall approach, this project is an example of what David Bordwell has called 'middle-level research', applying theory to a …
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Exile, Authorship, and 'The Good German': A Reconsideration of the Screenplays and Novels of Emeric Pressburger
… an equal in the most significant partnership in British cinema, Emeric Pressburger has largely been overshadowed by his long term collaborator Michael Powell in both critical and academic studies. While there have been countless books on Powell and Pressburger as a team, those who have sought to …
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British art cinema, 1975-2000 : context and practice
… itself with examining two general aspects of British art cinema between 1975 and 2000; namely, how the British art cinema operates as an art cinema in the context of its 1960s and 1970s European counterparts54 and how the individual filmmaking practices of these British directors both conform …
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BRITISH WORLD WAR TWO FILMS 1945-65: CATHARSIS OR NATIONAL REGENERATION?
Major differences in British Second World War films produced in wartime 1939-45 (idealising the 'People's War') and post-war versions produced between 1945-65 (promoting the return of elite masculinity) suggest a degree of cultural re-conditioning concerning the memory of war, by Britain's …
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Exilic Vision and the Cinematic Interrogation of Britain: The Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter Collaboration
… blacklisted American director Joseph Losey and British-Jewish playwright/screenwriter Harold Pinter. During the 1960s and early 1970s, they collaborated on the celebrated British art-house films The Servant (1963, based on the novella by Robin Maugham), Accident (1967, based on the novel by …