Manchester University Press, 2010. — 171 p. Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representational approaches transcended accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revised the strict codes of British documentary film of the 1930s and...
Manchester University Press, 2012. - 334 p. In a long and varied career, Lindsay Anderson made training films, documentaries, searing family dramas and blistering satires, including This Sporting Life , O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital . Students of British cinema and television from the 1950s to 1990s will find this book a valuable source of information about a director...
University Press of Mississippi, 1992. - 799 p. Moviegoers often assume that famous director Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and "It's a Wonderful Life"). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography,...
University of Illinois Press, 2011. - 192 p. In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist - a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions. In contrast with Leigh's prevailing reputation as a straightforward crafter of social realist movies, O'Sullivan illuminates the...
University Press of Kentucky, 2006. - 545 p. Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908-1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965). British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major filmmaker with his epic...
Manchester University Press, 2005. - 200 p. This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director's work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, examining the artistic and cultural influences which shaped his films. Asquith's silent films were compared favourably to those of his eminent contemporary Alfred...
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