All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema (1986) edited by Charles Barr
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| Charles Barr | |
| British Film Institute (1986) | |
| ISBN 0851701795 | |
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Synopsis
"All Our Yesterdays" looks at the British film industry from its troubled relations with the state; the links with theater, literature, music hall and broadcasting; to mainstream and independent cinema, genres, directors, stars and individual films. It provides a fresh, wide-ranging and often provocative account of British cinema.
Contents
- Introduction: Amnesia and Schizophrenia - Charles Barr
- Cinema and State - Julian Petley
- Under the Shadow of Hollywood - Robert Murphy
- 'Britain's Outstanding Contribution to the Film': The documentary-realist tradition - Andrew Higson
- The Lost Continent - Julian Petley
- A Literary Cinema? British Films and British Novels - Brian McFarlane
- 'Sister of the Stage': British Film and British Theatre - Geoff Brown
- Music Hall and British Cinema - Andy Medhurst
- Broadcasting and Cinema: 1: Converging histories - John Caughie
- Broadcasting and Cinema: 2: Screen within screens - Charles Barr
- The 'Other Cinema' in Britain: Unfinished business in oppositional and independent film, 1929-1984 - Sylvia Harvey
- Scotland: Strategies of Centralisation - Alastair Michie
- Live Action: A brief history of British animation - Elaine Burrows
- Riff-raff: British cinema and the underworld - Robert Murphy
- The Film Society, 1925-1939 - Jen Samson
- Fitz: The old man of the screen - Denis Gifford
- Humphrey-Jennings: Surrealist observer - Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
- Paul Robeson: The black man as film hero - Jeffrey Richards
- Diana Dors - Christine Geraghty
- Dirk Bogarde - Andy Medhurst
- Mandy: Daughter of Transition - Pam Cook
- The Ship That Died of Shame - Jim Cook
- Frenzy: A Return to Britain - Peter Hutchings
Notes
- Contains many references to Hitchcock's early career in Britain.
