A critical history of the British Cinema
By: Roy Armes
Series: Cinema two; Cinema two
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Published: 1978
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780436018039; 9780436018022
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; Filmkunst
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-355) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The invention of the cinema; title: 2. The beginnings of an industry; title: 3. The birth of narrative cinema; title: 4. The end of the silent era; title: 5. The 1930s sound film; title: 6. Style in the interwar years: Hitchcock and Asquith; title: 7. Korda and the dominant myths of the 1930s; title: 8. Grierson and the documentary idea; title: 9. Documentary at war: Humphrey Jennings; title: 10. Rank and the entertainment film; title: 11. Balcon at Ealing; title: 12. Literary cinema: Asquith, Reed and Lean; title: 13. Two individualists: Powell and Dickinson; title: 14. Formulas for success; title: 15. From Free Cinema to Woodfall; title: 16. The foreign impact: Polanski, Losey, Kubrick; title: 17. An art of the real: Russell, Loach and Watkins; title: 18. Alternative cinemas.