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NEWSLETTER
Spring 05
BOOKS
GETTING
THE PICTURE: PUBLICATIONS
ON BRITISH FILM AND TELEVISION 2003-4
How
much research is under way on British film and television? And how much
of it is reaching publication? The following checklist offers a summary
of what has been published during the calendar years 2003-04, based on
lists kindly contributed by many of the Centre’s contacts. Clearly, it
cannot pretend to be exhaustive (and omissions notified to us will be
included in the next newsletter), but it offers an interesting picture
of a relatively dynamic field. Traditional themes such as class and realism,
as well as ‘decade’ and genre studies, are still in evidence, amid the
larger number of artist monographs and single film essays. But early cinema
research – and pre-cinema, in the case of Eadweard Muybridge – is clearly
making a significant contribution to reassessing the foundations of Britain’s
moving image culture. Television studies remain relatively strong, while
the avant-garde and ‘film as visual culture’ seems less well served. The
problems faced by small presses have certainly had an impact, delaying
some publications and no doubt leading to editorial caution. Will electronic
make good this shortfall in the future? IC
Jonathan Bignell and Andrew O’Day, Terry Nation (Manchester University
Press, 2004)
Jon Burrows, Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films,
1908-1918 (University of Exeter Press, 2003)
Alan Burton and Laraine Porter (eds.), Scene-Stealing: Sources for
British Cinema Before 1930 (Flicks Books, 2003)
Margaret Butler, Film and Community in Britain and France: From La
Regle Du Jeu to Room at the Top (I.B. Tauris, 2004)
Steve Chibnall, Brighton Rock [Turner Classic Movies British
Film Guides] (I.B. Tauris, 2004)
Steve Chibnall, Get Carter [British Film Guides] (I.B. Tauris,
2003)
Mark Connelly, The Charge of the Light Brigade (I.B. Tauris,
2003)
Michael Cox, John Finch and Marjorie Giles (eds.) Granada Television:
The First Generation (Manchester University Press, 2003)
Wendy E. Everett, Terence Davies [British Film Makers] (Manchester
University Press, 2004)
Colin Gardener, Joseph Losey [British Film Makers] (Manchester
University Pres, 2004)
Christine Geraghty, My Beautiful Laundrette [Turner Classic Movies
British Film Guides] (I.B. Tauris, 2004)
Phillip Gillett, The British Working Class in Postwar Film (Manchester
University Press, 2003)
Christine Gledhill, Reframing British Cinema, 1918-1928: Between
Restraint and Passion (BFI, 2003)
Stephen Glynn, A Hard Day’s Night [Turner Classic Movies British
Film Guides] (I.B. Tauris, 2004)
Julia Hallam, Lynda La Plante (Manchester University Press, 2004)
Benjamin Halligan, Michael Reeves [British Film Makers] (Manchester
University Pres, 2003)
Sue Harper and Vincent Porter, British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline
of Deference (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Stephen Herbert (ed.), Eadweard Muybridge: The Kingston Museum Bequest
(The Projection Box, in association with Kingston Museum and Heritage
Service, 2004)
John Hill and Martin McLoone (eds.), Big Picture, Small Screen: Relations
Between Film and Television (University of Luton Press, 2003)
Peter Hutchings, Dracula [British Film Guides] (I.B. Tauris,
2003)
Richard Kilborn, Staging the real: Factual TV programming in the
age of Big Brother (Manchester University Press, 2003)
Samantha Lay, British Social Realism: From Documentary to Brit Grit
(Wallflower Press, 2003)
David Lazar (ed.), Michael Powell Interviews (University Press
of Mississippi, 2003)
Jim Leach, British Film (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Colin McArthur, Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots: Distortions
of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003)
Alexander Mackendrick, On Film-making: An introduction to the craft
of the director (Faber and Faber, 2004)
BOOKS continued
Ian MacKillip and Neil Sinyard (eds.), British Cinema in the 1950s:
An Art in Peacetime (Manchester University Press, 2003)
Geoff Mayer, Roy Ward Baker [British Film Makers] (Manchester University
Press, 2004)
Geoff Mayer, Guide to British Cinema (Greenwood Press, 2003)
Simon Morgan-Russell, Jimmy Perry and David Croft (Manchester University
Press, 2004)
Michael O’Pray (ed.), The British Avant-garde Film: 1926-95 - An Anthology
of Writings (University of Luton Press, 2003)
Susanna Onega and Christian Gutleben, Refracting the Canon in Contemporary
British Literature and Film (Editions Rodopi, 2004)
Alistair Owen, Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters
(Bloomsbury, 2003)
Gareth Palmer, Discipline and liberty: Television and governance
(Manchester Uiversity Press, 2003)
Roy Perkins and Martin Stollery, British Film Editors: The Heart of
the Movie (BFI, 2004)
Julianne Pidduck, Contemporary Costume Film: Space, Place and the Past
(BFI, 2004)
Simon Popple and Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream
Factory (Wallflower Press, 2004)
Phillip Prodger, Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous
Photography Movement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003)
John Plunkett, Queen Victoria, First Media Monarch (Oxford University
Press, 2003)
Robert Sellers, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: The Inside
Story of HandMade Films (Metro Publishing, 2003) [paperback title:
Very Naughty Boys]
Mark Sinker, If… [BFI Film Classics] (BFI, 2004)
Grahame Smith, Dickens and the Dream of Cinema (Manchester University
Press, 2003)
Rebecca Solnit, Motion Studies: Time, Space and Eadweard Muybridge
(Bloomsbury, 2003)
Andrew Spicer, Typical Men: The Representation of Masculinity in Popular
British Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003)
Paul Sutton (ed.), The Diaries of Lindsay Anderson (Methuen, 2004)
Damian Tambini and Jamie Cowling (eds.), From Public Service Broadcasting
to Public Service Communications (Institute for Public Policy Research,
2004)
Peter Todd and Benjamin Cook (eds.), Subjects and Sequences: A Margaret
Tait Reader (LUX, 2004)
Vanessa Toulmin, Simon Popple and Patrick Russell (eds.), The Lost
World of Mitchell & Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film (BFI, 2004)
Alexander Walker, Icons in the Fire: The Decline and Fall of Almost
Everybody in the British Film Industry (Orion, 2004)
Greg Walker, The Private Life of Henry VIII [British Film Guides]
(I.B. Tauris, 2003)
Gary Watson, The Cinema of Mike Leigh: A Sense of the Real (Wallflower
Press, 2004)
Rob White, The Third Man [BFI Film Classics] (BFI, 2003)
Michael Williams, Ivor Novello: Screen Idol (BFI, 2003)
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
Stephen Bottomore, ed, Special Issue of Film History on Early British
cinema, with articles by John Barnes, Richard Brown, Jon Burrows, Vanessa
Toulmin, Gerry Turvey, Film History 16. 1, 2004
Jon Burrows, ‘Girls on film: the musical matrices of film stardom in early
British cinema’, Screen 44, Autumn 2003
Jon Burrows, ‘Penny Pleasures II: Indecency, anarchy and junk film in
London’s ‘Nickelodeons’, 1906-1914’, Film History 16. 2, 2004
Ian Christie, ‘Heavenly Courts’; Eugene McNamee, ‘Once more into the breach:
Branagh’s Henry V, Blair’s war and the UK constitution’; Leslie J. Moran,
‘On realism and the law film: the case of Oscar Wilde’, in Leslie J Moran
et al, eds, Law’s Moving Image (Cavendish Publishing, 2004)
Ian Christie, ‘The Magic Sword: Genealogy of an English Trick Film’, Film
History 16. 2, 2004
Ian Christie, ‘Contextualising Paul’s “Time Machine”’, in Cinema &
Cie no 3, Fall 2003
Michael Hammond, ‘Laughter during wartime: comedy and the language of
trauma in British cinema regulation 1917’, Screen 44, Summer 2003.
Robert Murphy, Review: The British Working Class in Postwar Film and
British Cinema of the 1950s: the Decline of Deference, Screen
45, Winter 2004.
Charles Musser, ‘The Hidden and the Unspeakable: On Theatrical Culture,
Oscar Wilde and Ernst Lubitsch’s Lady Windermere’s Fan’, Film Studies
no. 4, Summer 2004
REFERENCE
Brian McFarlane (ed.), The Encyclopedia of British Film (Methuen,
2003)
Alistair McGown (ed.), BFI Television Handbook 2005 (British Film
Institute, 2004)
UK Film Council Statistical Yearbook/Annual Review 2003/04 (Film
Council, 2004)
www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/filmindustry
Research & Statistics Bulletin Vol. 2 (1) (Film Council, 2004,
earlier bulletins also available)
www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/usr/downloads/
statistics/UKFC_Nov_Newsletter.pdf
Advertising Effectiveness in UK Film Distribution (Film Council,
2003)
www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/adeffects
Film Theft in the UK (Film Council, 2004)
www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/filmindustry/piracy
Post-production in the UK (Film Council, 2003)
www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/filmindustry/postprod