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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 May 2010
      30 August 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511606953
      9780521652766
      9780521654197
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606953
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 300 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.513kg, 300 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication
      Series:
      National Film Traditions
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    Subjects:
    Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication
    Series:
    National Film Traditions
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    This book explores British cinema in relation to its social political and cultural contexts. Each chapter deals with a specific topic and includes close readings of key films from different historical periods. Topics include realism, expressionism, popular cinema, film and theater, sexuality and gender, comedy, class and ideology, heritage film, and diasporic cinema. Demonstrating the richness and variety of a national cinema that has traditionally struggled to define itself between the paradigms of Hollywood popular film and European art cinema, British Film also addresses the problematic concept of 'national character' as it has been applied in studies of national cinemas and cultures, and the increasing pressure on all of these ideas in the age of globalization. Designed for the general reader, this volume is suitable for use as a textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of British cinema and detailed discussion of specific films that can be used in tandem with screenings.

    Reviews

    "Jim Leach's British Cinema is an engaging introduction to and meditation on what the opening chapter describes as a "complex" and "messy" cinema" Letters in Canada 2004 Jim Ellis

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