Dissolving Views Key Writings on British Cinema [Hardcover]

British cinema has been far richer and more diverse than is generally recognized, as this collection of key writings on British film culture  from the conversion to sound in the late 1920s to the 1990s  testifies.Dissolving Viewsbrings together a number of important and influential essays and the light they throw on 70 or so years of British cinema history makes this volume a vital, provocative and highly informative collection.Andrew Higsonis Professor of Film and Television at the University of York, UK.

1. IntroductionAndrew Higson
2. Hitchcock's British Films RevisitedCharles Barr
3. The Production Designer and theGesamtkunstwerk: German Film Technicians in the British Film Industry of the 1930sTim Bergfelder
4. Engendering the Nation: British Documentary Film 1930-1939Kathryn Dodd and Philip Dodd
5. Neither Here Nor There: National Identity in Gainsborough Costume DramaPam Cook
6. The Quality Film Adventure: British Critics and the Cinema, 1942-1948John Ellis
7. FromHoliday Campto High Camp: Women in British Feature Films, 1945-1951Sue Harper
8.Victim: Text as ContextAndy Medhurst
9. Space, Place, Spectacle: Landscape and Townscape in the 'Kitchen Sink' FilmAndrew Higson
10. Landscapes and Stories in the 1960s British RealismTerry Lovell
11. The British Avant-Garde and Art Cinema from the 1970s to the 1990sMichael O'Pray
12. A Post-National European Cinema: A Consideration of Derek Jarman'sThe TempestandEdward II Colin MacCabe
13. Beyond 'The Cinema of Duty'? The Pleasures of Hybridity: Black British Film of the 1980s and 1990sSarita Malik
14. Crossing Thresholds: The Contemporary British Woman's FilmJustine King
15. The Heritage Film and British CinemaAndrew Higson
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