British art cinema : creativity, experimentation and innovation / edited by Paul Newland and Brian Hoyle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newland, Paul (Lecturer in film studies), editor.

Hoyle, Brian, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Great Britain--History.

Motion pictures.

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Film criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This text provides a direct and comprehensive account of British art cinema. It brings together original essays arguing that British filmmakers have a long tradition of experiment and artistry, both within and beyond the mainstream.

Contents:

Introduction: British art cinema: creativity, experimentation and innovation / Paul Newland and Brian Hoyle

1. 'Art cinema', 1920s British film culture: Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Asquith / Tom Ryall

2. Humphrey Jennings: of images, poetry and <i>Pandaemonium

</i> / Owen Evans

3. Out of the war, on with the arts: cultural politics and art films in post-war Britain / Katerina Loukopoulou

4. Attitudes towards experiment in British cinema: the amateur art films of Enrico Cocozza / Ryan Shand

5. Art cinema, British production and the 1960s / Duncan Petrie

6. Happy accident: the symbiosis of Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter / Peter Jameson

7. The parameters of British art cinema: a case study of John Krish / Robert Shail

8. The reputation of Nicolas Roeg / Paul Newland

9. 'As the first black face on the scene, I had to push the doors open': Horace Ove and <i>Pressure</i> (1975) / Sally Shaw

10. Art cinema and the British poetic realist tradition / David Forrest

11. The third avant garde: Black Audio Film Collective and Latin America / Paul Elliott

12. The rise of British art cinema in the 1980s / John Hill

13. Derek Jarman, trance films and medieval art cinema / Jo George

14. Twin traditions: the biopic and the composed film in British art cinema / Brian Hoyle

15. Don Boyd and the business of art cinema / Phil Wickham

16. Shakespearean film as art cinema: <i>Stage Beauty</i> as a cerebral retort to Hollywood / Sarah Martindale

17. Boundary crossings and inter-subjective imaginings: Sarah Turner's <i>Perestroika </i> / Kim Knowles

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526133137

152613313X

OCLC:

1149150063