British Cinema of the 90s: : Robert Murphy: British Film Institute

British Cinema of the 90s

Description

This work examines major box office hits like 'The Full Monty' as well as critically acclaimed films like 'Under the Skin'. It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisation of British film culture, Hollywood and Europe, changing representations of sexuality and ethnicity.

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1. A Path through the Moral Maze, Robert Murphy (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
2. The British Film Industry in the 1990s, Peter Todd (BFI National Library, UK)
3. Something for Fveryone: British Film Culture in the 1990s, Geoff Brown (The Times, UK)
4. The Film Industry and the Government: 'Endless Mr Beans and Mr Bonds'?, Toby Miller (New York University, USA)
5. Spoilt for Choice? Multiplexes in the 90s, Stuart Hanson (Birmingham University, UK)
6. Pathways into the Industry, Kate Ogborn (British Film Institute, UK)
7. As Others See Us: British Film-making and Europe in the 90s, Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, London, UK)
8. Hollywood UK, Neil Watson
9. Image and Nation in 1990s British Cinema, Moya Luckett (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
10. Here and Then: Space, place and Nostalgia in British Youth Cinema of the 1990s, Karen Lury (University of Glasgow, UK)
11. Black British Cinema in the 90s: Going Going Gone, Karen Alexander (British Film Institute, UK)
12. Fewer Weddings and More Funerals: Changes in the Heritage Film, Pamela Church Gibson (London College of Fashion, UAL, UK)
13. Two Sisters, the Fogey, the Priest and his Lover: Sexual Plurality in 1990s British Cinema, Stella Bruzzi (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
14. Unseen British Cinema, Geoffrey Macnab
15. Travelling Light: New Art Cinema in the 90s, Claire Smith
16. Men in the 90s, Claire Monk (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
17. Not Having It All: Women and Film in the 1990s, Charlotte Brunsdon (Warwick University, UK)
18. Failure and Utopianism: Representations of the Working Class in British Cinema of the 1990s, John Hill (University of Ulster, UK)
Select Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published	25 Jul 2019
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	208
ISBN	9781838714789
Imprint	British Film Institute
Illustrations	40 illustrations,
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing