Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial - often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers. In this Very Short Introduction, Charles Barr considers films and filmmakers, and studios and sponsorship, against the wider view of changing artistic, socio-political, and industrial climates over the decades of the 20th Century. Considering British cinema in the wake of one of the most familiar of cinematic reference points - Alfred Hitchcock - Barr traces how British cinema has developed its own unique path, and has since been celebrated for its innovative approaches and distinctive artistic language. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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Weight: 124g
Dimensions: 111 x 174mm
Publication Date: 20 Oct 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780199688333
About Charles Barr
Charles Barr worked for many years at the University of East Anglia helping to develop one of the first UK programmes in Film Studies at graduate and undergraduate level. He has since taught in St Louis Galway and Dublin and St Mary's University Twickenham and is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of East Anglia. Much of his published work has been on British Cinema including books on Ealing Studios (1977) and English Hitchcock (1999) and he was co-writer with director Stephen Frears of Typically British part of the centenary history of cinema broadcast on Channel 4 in 1995. He has continued writing on Hitchcock with a study of Vertigo in the BFI Classics series (new edition 2012) and Hitchcock: Lost and Found co-authored with the Parisian scholar Alain Kerzoncuf.