Children, Cinema and Censorship

Sarah J Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Cinema and Society
• Children have long been one of cinema's largest audiences yet, from its infancy, cinema has in the minds of moral watchdogs accompanied a succession o... Lees meer

Britain Can Take It

Tony Aldgate, Jeffrey Richards

• Paperback | Engels | Cinema and Society
• At the outbreak of the Second World War, all cinemas in Britain were closed. Ten days later, they were opened again as a valuable way of boosting mora... Lees meer

Film Propaganda

Richard Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Cinema and Society
• Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Hitler and Goebbels all regarded cinema as their most important weapon for mass political propaganda. This revised and expande... Lees meer

The New Scottish Cinema

Jonathan Murray

• Hardcover | Engels | Cinema and Society
• From a near standing start in the 1970s, the emergence and expansion of an aesthetically and culturally distinctive Scottish cinema proved to be one o... Lees meer

Acting for the Silent Screen

Chris O'Rourke

• Paperback | Engels | Cinema and Society
• A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film st... Lees meer

British Children's Cinema

Noel Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Cinema and Society
• British children's films have played a part in the childhoods of generations of young people around the world for over a century. Until now, however, ... Lees meer

Hollywood in Crisis

Colin Schindler

• Hardcover | Engels | Cinema and Society
• First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Lees meer

Realism and Tinsel

Robert Murphy

• Paperback | Cinema and Society
• Looking at popular British film in the 1940s, Realism and Tinsel goes beyond the established histories of the Ealing Comedies to excavate a rich tradi... Lees meer

Spectacular Narratives

Geoff King

• Hardcover | Cinema and Society
• This text focuses on the dynamic relationship between narrative and spectacle in Hollywood cinema. It shows how narrative - far from being eclipsed by... Lees meer

From Moscow to Madrid

Ewa Mazierska, Laura Rascaroli

• Paperback | Cinema and Society
• Travelling from Warsaw to Blackpool, Marseilles to Madrid, this study investigates the postmodern nature of contemporary Europe's urban life and cinem... Lees meer

Christmas at the Movies

• Hardcover | Cinema and Society
• This book questions how films create and interpret what Christmas means to societies across the Anglo-Saxon and European world, examining topics such ... Lees meer

Beyond a Joke

Neil Archer

• Paperback | Engels | Cinema and Society
• At the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers were treated to the unprecedented sight of James... Lees meer

The British at War

James Chapman

• Paperback | Engels | Cinema and Society
• This text presents a picture of popular consensus between the government and the film industry over the representation on the cinema screen of Britain... Lees meer

From Steam to Screen

Rebecca Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Cinema and Society
• In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity. ... Lees meer

Family Films in Global Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels | Cinema and Society
• With the huge global success of Hollywood 'family film' franchises, such as Harry Potter, it is unsurprising that there have been many attempts to emu... Lees meer

Withnail and Us

Justin Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Cinema and Society
• Cult has entered the cultural psyche in a profound and pervasive way. There is no corner of popular culture beyond the potential for cult transformati... Lees meer

Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots

Colin McArthur

• Hardcover | Engels | Cinema and Society
• This provocative book follows MGM's Gene Kelly musical Brigadoon through the worlds of 1940s Broadway theatre and 1950s Hollywood and documents the co... Lees meer

Realism and Tinsel

Robert Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Cinema and Society
• With themes ranging from passion and romance to murder and psychological disturbance, popular British film in the 1940s found little favour with the c... Lees meer

Typical Men

Professor Andrew Spicer

• Paperback | Cinema and Society
• Provides a history of masculinity in British films from World War II onwards. The study explores in detail the changing nature of the dominant male cu... Lees meer

Children, Cinema and Censorship

Sarah J Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Cinema and Society
• Using original research, this book explores the recurring debates in Britain and America about children and how they use and respond to the media, foc... Lees meer

Hollywood in Crisis

Colin Schindler

• Paperback | Engels | Cinema and Society
• Hollywood in Crisis is a detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s. Colin Schindler, looking at Hollywood as an ag... Lees meer

British Children's Cinema

Noel Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Cinema and Society
• British children's films have played a part in the childhoods of generations of young people around the world for over a century. Until now, however, ... Lees meer

The Euro-Western

Lee Broughton

• Hardcover | Engels | Cinema and Society
• The Western has always been inextricably linked to the USA, and studies have continually sought to connect its historical development to changes in Am... Lees meer

Believing in Film

Mark Le Fanu

• Hardcover | Engels | Cinema and Society
• We live in a secular world and cinema is part of that secular edifice. There is no expectation, in modern times, that filmmakers should be believers -... Lees meer