The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History

The Routledge companion to British cinema history- Front Cover
The Routledge companion to British cinema history
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of illustrations
	Figures
	Tables
List of contributors
Introduction: British cinema history
	Part I: British silent cinema to the coming of sound – 1895–1930
	Part II: The classic period – 1930–80
	Part III: Contemporary British cinema – 1980 to the present
	Further reading
	References
PART I:
British silent cinema to the coming of sound: 1895–1930
Chapter 1: The origins of British cinema, 1895–1918
	Introduction
	1895 to 1901: Victorian
	1902 to 1910: Edwardian
	1911 to 1918: pre-war
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 2: “Temporary American citizens”: British cinema in the 1920s
	Introduction and overview
	Producers and product
	The distribution business
	Cinemas and cinema-going
	Critique
	Legislation and the Cinematograph Act
	Conclusion
	Further reading
	References
	Journals
Chapter 3: “King of cameramen”: Jack Cox and British cinematography in
the silent era
	Further reading
	References
	BECTU interviews
	Interviews with author
Chapter 4: Designing the silent British film
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 5: Stardom in silent cinema
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 6: The view from the pit: British silent cinema and the coming of sound
	Notes
	Further reading
	References
	Trade magazines
	Interview
Chapter 7: The talkies come to Britain: British silent cinema and the transition to sound, 1928–30
	Conclusion: winners and losers
	Further reading
	References
	Newspapers and trade magazines
	Documents and recordings
Chapter 8: The Tudor Cinema, Leicester: a local case study
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 9: The rise of the Film Society movement
	Film societies and the better films movement
	Film societies and the workers’ film movement
	Reinvention and consolidation
	Further reading
	References
	Online
	Film festivals
	BFI sources
	Trade publications
PART II:
The classic period: 1930–80
Chapter 10: Make-believe and realism in British film production: from the coming of
sound to the abolition of the National Film Finance Corporation
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 11: Local film censorship: the watch committee system
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 12: Producers and moguls in the British film industry, 1930–80
	Introduction
	The artisan: Julius Hagen
	The independent: Joseph Janni
	The mogul: Nat Cohen
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 13: Émigrés in classic British cinema
	The case for permeability: interrogating borders
	Terms for a cosmopolitan cinema
	Emeric Pressburger and Hein Heckroth
	Conclusion
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 14: ‘Out of the frying pan, into the fire’: British documentary, 1945–52
	Notes
	References
Chapter 15: “Above and beyond everyday life”: the rise and fall of Rank’s contract
artists of the 1950s
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 16: “A friend to every exhibitor”: National Screen Service and the
British trailer industry
	Introduction
	Establishing National Screen Service Ltd
	Post-war expansion and growth
	Competition and takeover
	Future research
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 17: The Eady Levy, “the envy of most other European nations”: runaway
productions and the British Film Fund in the early 1960s
	Defining the Eady Levy
	The success of Eady and the Americanization of the British film industry
	Eady’s seduction of Lolita (1962)
	Eady’s license to kill: United Artists and James Bond
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 18: The Children’s Film Foundation
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 19: “As long as indifferent sexy films are box office they will abound!!”:
the Jacey cinema chain and independent distribution and exhibition
in 1960s Britain
	Introduction
	The establishment of the Jacey cinema chain
	Miss Jacey
	Gala Film Distributors and Kenneth Rive
	Antony Balch
	E.J. Fancey
	Why pay more?
	Conclusion
	Note
	Other archival sources
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 20: Cinema and the age of television, 1950–70
	Introduction
	Conflicting ideologies of subsidy and support
	Parliament and the media debate
	A televisual world
	Conclusions
	Further reading
	References
	Government sources (accessed online)
	Online source
Chapter 21: The BBFC and the apparatus of censorship
	The early days of the BBFC
	The “H” and “X” certificates
	New challenges and new certificates
	The BBFC today
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 22: The British Film Institute: between culture and industry
	Introduction
	1930s: foundations
	1940s and 1950s: institution building
	1960s: consolidation, regional expansion and accountability
	1970s: renewal and political difficulties
	1980s: institutional renaissance
	1990s: new ambitions
	2000s: in the shadow of the Film Council
	2010: new roles
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 23: Trades unions and the British film industry, 1930s–80s
	Introduction
	The early development of the film technicians’ union
	The 1940s and 50s
	The 1960s and 70s
	The 1980s
	Epilogue
	Further reading
	References
	Periodicals
Chapter 24: The public film archives and the evolving challenge of
screen heritage preservation in the UK
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 25: Good of its kind? British film journalism
	Trade journals and other periodicals
	Critics and reviewers
	Critical self-portraits
	Further reading
	References
PART III: Contemporary British cinema: 1980 to the present
Chapter 26: Cult films in British cinema and film culture
	The British cult film canon and the “age of the cult film”
	Revising and cultifying British cinema: from critics to fans to home-viewing industries
	The cultification of British consumption sites, practices and experiences
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 27: The Scala Cinema: a case study
	The Scala Theatre (1911–69)
	The Other Cinema 1976–7
	The Scala 1979–81
	The Scala 1981–93
	Further reading
	Reference
Chapter 28: Underground film-making: British Super 8 in the 1980s
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 29: The rise of the multiplex
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 30: Rewind, playback: re-viewing the “video boom” in Britain
	Introduction
	The way to the stars? Video distributors and feature films
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 31: The rise and fall of practically everyone? The independent British
film production sector from the 1980s to the present
	Introduction: the British film industry
	The 1980s: rises and falls
	The 1990s: renewals
	The National Lottery and the UK Film Council
	The twenty-first century
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 32: From Film Four to the Film Council: film policy, subsidy and
sponsorship, and the relationship between cinema and TV, 1980–2010
	Mapping the field of film and television policy
	Film Four: private finance as cultural subsidy
	The UK Film Council: public subsidy for economic objectives
	Conclusion: rethinking media policy in the digital age
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 33: The architects of BBC Films
	Mark Shivas (1988–97)
	David Thompson (1997–2007)
	Conclusion
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 34: The UKFC and the Regional Screen Agencies
	Introduction
	Commerce vs culture?
	Getting creative
	The UKFC
	Production funding
	The Regional Screen Agencies
	Conclusion
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 35: Hollywood blockbusters and UK production today
	Introduction
	History
	Film tax relief
	Client companies
	Content
	Conclusion
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 36: Distributing British cinema
	The problems of being British
	The distribution landscape
	The challenges of surviving
	Drawing on a long tradition
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 37: Memories of British cinema
	From texts to memories
	Problems of memory
	British cinema memories
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 38: From Lerwick to Leicester Square: UK film festivals and
why they matter
	Introduction
	Challenges to writing about UK film festivals
	UK film festival development
	Creating a community: Sheffield Doc/Fest
	Creating exposure: London Film Festival
	Conclusion
	Further reading
	References
Chapter 39: Crowdfunding independence: British cinema and digital
production/distribution platforms
	Introduction
	The history of crowdfunding
	Digital platforms
	The British approach
	Conclusion
	Further reading
	References
Index