The Screening of America

Tom O'Brien

• Hardcover | Engels | Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• This is an original investigation of how movies have reflected and helped to shape the values of a generation. From All the President's Men to Wall St... Lees meer

Transatlantic Crossings

Sarah Street

• Hardcover | Engels | Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Transatlantic Crossings is a major study of the distribution and exhibition of British films in the USA. Charting the cross-cultural reception of many... Lees meer

The State of European Cinema

Angus Finney

• Hardcover | Engels | Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• The State of European Cinema offers a critical review of the state of the industry at the close of the twentieth century. Finney spent two years resea... Lees meer

Straight Acting

Sean O'Connor

• Hardcover | Engels | Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Between the trials of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s and the beginnings of legal reforms in the 1960s, the West End stage was dominated by the work of gay p... Lees meer

Dissolving Views

• Hardcover | Engels | Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• British cinema has been far richer and more diverse than is generally recognized, as this collection of key writings on British film culture - from th... Lees meer

Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure

David Schroeder

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• The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the adv... Lees meer

Screening the Novel

Gabriel Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Some of the most memorable movies of Hollywood's Golden Age were based on novels that never received the acclaim they deserved. No-one who saw Rod Ste... Lees meer

American History/American Film

• Hardcover | Engels | Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• In this pioneering work, sixteen historians analyse individual films for deeper insight into US institutions, values and lifestyles. Linking all of th... Lees meer

Brief Encounters

Stephen Bourne

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• For many years, lesbian and gay representation in British cinema escaped the attention of critics and historians. Informative and entertaining, Brief ... Lees meer

Heroines Without Heroes

• Hardcover | Engels | Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• This anthology explores a little-examined period of European film history (1945-1951) and places gender at the centre of struggles around national ide... Lees meer

Daughters of Desire

Shameem Kabir

• Hardcover | Engels | Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• This book explores lesbians in film from early representations to contemporary ones, spanning sixty years and over twenty films. Concentrating on lesb... Lees meer

Cinema and the Second Sex

Carrie Tarr, Brigitte Rollet

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• Women's filmmaking in France has been a source of both delight and despair. On the one hand, the numbers are impressive - over 250 feature-length film... Lees meer

Gaslight Melodrama

Guy Barefoot

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• In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted th... Lees meer