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The Names That Stand Out In The Annals Of British Film History Are Set Into Historical Perspective In This Comprehensive Study. It Questions Some Of The Myths Surrounding British Cinema And Probes The Strengths Of A National Output Conditioned In Its Practice By A Love-hate Relationship With Hollywood And Customarily Judged In Terms Of Its Predominantly Realist Approach. The Invention Of The Cinema -- The Beginnings Of An Industry -- The Birth Of Narrative Cinema -- The End Of The Silent Era -- The 1930s Sound Film -- Style In The Interwar Years -- Hitchcock And Asquith -- Korda And The Dominant Myths Of The 1930s -- Grierson And The Documentary Idea -- Documentary At War -- Humphrey Jennings -- Rank And The Entertainment Film -- Balcon At Ealing -- Literary Cinema -- Asquith, Reed And Lean -- Two Individualists -- Powell And Dickinson -- Formulas For Success -- From Free Cinema To Woodfall -- The Foreign Impact -- Polanski, Losey, Kubrick -- An Art Of The Real -- Russell, Loach And Watkins -- Alternative Cinemas. Roy Armes. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 345-355.

Author

Armes, Roy

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195200430

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14