... Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner The style ‘British Cinema The’ Gibbs John Perkins Victor subjectivity point of view cinematic viewpoint Baker Peter film criticism Films and Filming Godard Jean Luc Hawks Howard Hitchcock Alfred mise en scène Truffaut François Bazin André Hedling Erik...

...This is a comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. The author sets the director's work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, and examines the artistic and cultural influences within which his films can be understood. Asquith's silent films were compared...

... by the implications that such an approach has for other aspects of British cinema. Secondly, it is important to understand that examining the style and meaning of any individual film allows that film to have a position within any kind of broader framework. auteurs Billy Liar Cavell Stanley Movie...

... to public attention with Free Cinema but who, unlike many of his peers in that movement did not take the Hollywood route to success. What emerges is a strong feeling for the character of the man as well as for a remarkable career in British cinema. Making use of hitherto unseen original materials from...

... himself, it challenges the critical privileging of realism in histories of British cinema, placing the emphasis instead on the importance of comedy and humour: of jokes and their functions; of laughter as a survival mechanism; and of characterisations and situations that disrupt our preconceptions...

... their similarities. The innovation of this approach is also complemented by the position its subjects occupy within the history of British cinema. As their collective title suggests, the arrival of these films was marked by a similar sense of innovation. The innovation of a film such as Room at the Top...

... Robinson David Walker Alexander Harrington John Jack Clayton Room at the Top British New Wave social paralysis British cinema Let us then begin by examining the film in its general outline, as a shape, as a whole; and in setting ourselves such an aim, it will be observed, we are presupposing...

... addresses the consternation that a particular camera movement found within the film caused Victor Perkins in ‘The British Cinema’. It is believed that this moment of the film's style destroyed the relationship between the décor and the action taking place. Writing in ‘Moments of Choice’, Perkins is keen...

...This chapter sheds light on the life and work of Humphrey Jennings, a filmmaker of extraordinary talent and one of the very few authentic exponents of cinematic language in the British cinema. Jennings is one of the most remarkable imaginative intelligences of his generation, who gained his sense...

...Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet of British cinema. His documentary films employ a range of representational approaches – including collagist narrative structures and dramatic re-enactment – in ways that transcend accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revise...