Chapter 7

Books

Aitken, I. (1990) Film and Reform: John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement, London: Routledge.

Ashby, J. and Higson A. (2000) British Cinema Past and Present, London: Routledge.

Barbour, S. (2013) The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity,London: Palgrave

Barr, C. (ed.) (1986) All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema, London: British Film Institute.

Bell, M and Williams, M. (2009) British Women’s Cinema, London: Routledge

Boose, L. and Burt, R. (eds) (2003) Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularising the Plays on Film, Television and Video, London: Routledge.

Bourne, S. (1996) Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema, 1930–71,London: Cassell.

Bourne, S. (2005) Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television, London: Continuum.

Dewe-Mathews, T. (1998) Censored: The Story of Film Censorship in Britain, London: Chatto & Windus.

Dickenson, M. and Street, S. (1985) Cinema and State: The Film Industry and the British Government 1927–84, London: British Film Institute.

Durgnat, R. (2011) A Mirror for England: British Movies from Austerity to Affluence, London: British Film Institute.

Friedman, L. (ed.) (1996) British Cinema and Thatcherism, London: UCL Press.

Griffiths, R. (2006) British Queer Cinema, London: Routledge.

Hamilton, J. (2012) X-Cert: The British Independent Horror Film, Hailsham: Hemlock.

Harper, S. and Porter, V. (2003) British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Higson, A. (1995) Waving the Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Higson, A. (2003) English Heritage, English Cinema: Costume Drama Since 1980, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Landy, M. (1991) British Genres: Cinema and Society 1930–60, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Lay, S. (2002) British Social Realism: From Documentary to Brit Grit, New York:Columbia University Press.

Leggott, J. (2008) Contemporary British Cinema – From Heritage to Horror, New York: Columbia University Press.

Murphy, R. (2002) British Cinema of the 90s, London: British Film Institute.

Murphy, R. (ed.) (2009) The British Cinema Book, London: British Film Institute.

Richards, J. and Aldgate, A. (1999) Best of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present, London: I.B. Tauris

Robertson, J.C. (1993) The Hidden Cinema: British Film Censorship in Action 1913–1975, London: Routledge.

Street, S. (1997) British National Cinema, London: Routledge.

Warren, P. (1993) British Cinema in Pictures: The British Film Collection, London: Batsford.

Young, L. (1996) Fear of the Dark: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema, London: Routledge.

There are also numerous online sources that contain details and synopses of films. In particular, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) contains information about films, television programmes and video games, including cast, plot summaries, trivia and reviews.

Journals

All the major newspapers and many monthly fashion magazines include regular articles on film. Empire is a monthly magazine that is less academic and more general than some of those mentioned below.

The Journal of British Cinema and Television was established in 2004 and appears four times each year. Its articles carry information on a variety of issues of popular and academic interest. This is not to be confused with the Journal of Popular British Cinema and Television.

Monthly Film Bulletin was published every month by the British Film Institute between 1934 and 1991, giving a synopsis and a critical review of every feature film released in Britain during that time. In 1991 it merged with Sight and Sound.

The New Review of Film and Television Studies is an academic journal that first appeared in 2003 and is available quarterly.

Sight and Sound appeared quarterly from 1932 and since 1991 has appeared monthly.

Screen has been the major journal of film theory since 1959, and is available quarterly.

Films

Many of the films mentioned in this chapter can be watched online or bought at some of the more specialised stores in Britain.

The British Film Institute’s (BFI) National Film and Television Archive has over 300,000 titles from 1895 onwards, and provides detailed information and a viewing service for students and researchers. In addition, the BFI has an extensive public library of books, films and film scripts, and the British Council frequently lends films and organises film seasons at its centres around the world.