Dissolving Views

Key Writings on British Cinema

Andrew Higson

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781474290647
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474290654
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film History & Criticism

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 Views brings 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Hitchcock's British Films Revisited
• 3. The Production Designer and the Gesamtkunstwerk: German Film Technicians in the British Film Industry of the 1930s
• 4. Engendering the Nation: British Documentary Film, 1930-1939
• 5. Neither Here nor There: National Identity in Gainsborough Costume Drama
• 6. The Quality Film Adventure: British Critics and the Cinema, 1942-1948
• 7. From Holiday Camp to High Camp: Women in British Feature Films, 1945-1951
• 8. Victim: Text as Context
• 9. Space, Place, Spectacle: Landscape and Townscape in the 'Kitchen Sink' Film
• 10. Landscapes and Stories in 1960s British Realism
• 11. The British Avant-Garde and Art Cinema from the 1970s to the 1990s
• 12. A Post-national European Cinema: A Consideration of Derek Jarman's The Tempest and Edward II
• 13. Beyond The Cinema of Duty'? The Pleasures of Hybridity: Black British Film of the 1980s and 1990s
• 14. Crossing Thresholds: The Contemporary British Woman's Film
• 15. The Heritage Film and British Cinema
• Bibliography
• Index