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book		Actor, soldier, poet / by R. Henderson-Bland ; with an appreciation by Sir Hubert Gough London: Heath Cranton, 1939. Call No: 81HEN HEN Author: Henderson-Bland, R. (Robert) Place: London Publisher: Heath Cranton PubDate: 1939 PhysDes: 327 p. : ill Subject: Henderson-Bland, R. (Robert); Great Britain. Army. Gloucestershire Regiment Biography LON: abn90033662; 6931727 More info
subject clippings file		ANIMATION. BRITAIN Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: ANIMATION. BRITAIN More info
journal article		Bethune/Doctor woman in Film news (Summer 1981) vol.38 iss.2 p.36-37 Author: Coynik, David J PhysDes: Article Subject: BETHUNE (CN, Donald Britain, 1964) More info
book		British cinema : a critical history / Amy Sargeant London: British Film Institute, 2005. Call No: 71(41) SAR Author: Sargeant, Amy Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 374 p. ; 24 cm Subject: BRITAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED KINGDOM : SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM. 1960's; UNITED KINGDOM. 1970's; SARGEANT, AMY Summary: Although new writing and research on British cinema has burgeoned over the last fifteen years, there has been a continued lack of single-authored books providing a coherent overview to this fascinating and elusive national cinema. Amy Sargeant’s personal and entertaining history of British cinema aims to fill this gap. With its insightful decade by decade analysis British cinema is brought alive for a new generation of students and the general reader alike. [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 1844570665 More info
book		The British film catalogue : Volume 1. Fiction film, 1895-1994 / Denis Gifford Chicago IL: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023 (41) GIF Author: Gifford, Denis Edition: Third edition Source: UK Place: London; Chicago IL Publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: xxii, 1097 p. ; 31cm Subject: BRITAIN; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH; FILMOGRAPHIES Summary: This is the first complete catalogue of every British film produced for public entertainment since the invention of cinematography over one hundred years ago. The first edition covered the years 1895-1970. This was updated for a second edition covering the years up to 1985, and now this third edition is further revised and updated to cover the years up to the end of 1994, the first one hundred years of cinema. Over one thousand new entries are included – not just films from the 1980s and 1990s; there are many dating from the years covered in the previous editions and catalogued here for the first time. [Taken from preface.] Notes: Includes index ISBN: 1579581994 Language: English More info
book		The British film catalogue : Volume 2. Non-fiction films, 1888-1994 London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023 (41) GIF Author: Denis Gifford Edition: Gifford, Denis Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Fitzroy Dearborn PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: xviii, 625p. 31cm Subject: BRITAIN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; FILMOGRAPHIES; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH Summary: This is the first attempt to compile a catalogue of every British non-fiction film produced primarily for cinema showings since the invention of cinematography. It forms a companion to [the author’s] British Film Catalogue of fiction (entertainment) films, first published in 1973 (covering the years 1895-1970), updated in a new edition in 1986 (covering the years up to 1985), and now revised, updated to the end of 1994, and published in a third edition by Fitzroy Dearborn alongside this volume. Between them, the two volumes catalogue virtually the entire history of over one hundred years of British films, separated into two main lines of cinema, fact and fiction. [Taken from preface.] Notes: Includes index ISBN: 1579582001 Language: English More info
Old collection book		British Films 1960 / Bernard Charman (ed.) London: [s.n.], 1960. Call No: F023(41) BRI Source: UK Place: London Publisher: [s.n.] PubDate: 1960 Subject: BRITAIN More info
Old collection book		British films 1971-1981 / Linda Wood (ed.) London: British Film Institute, 1983. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023(41) BRI"1971/81" CorpAuthor: BFI Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: 154 p. ; 30 cm Subject: BRITAIN More info
Old collection book		British films 1979-1980 London: British Film Institute, [198?]. Call No: F023(41) "1979/80" Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: [198?] PhysDes: 48 p. ; 21 cm Subject: BRITAIN More info
Old collection book		British films 1981-1982 London: [s.n.], 1982. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023(41) BRI"1981" Source: UK Place: London Publisher: [s.n.] PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: 32 p. ; 21 cm Subject: BRITAIN More info
Old collection book		British films 1982-1983 London: [s.n.], 1983. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023(41) BRI"1982" Source: UK Place: London Publisher: [s.n.] PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: 32 p. ; 22 cm Subject: BRITAIN More info
Old collection book		British films 1995 London: British Film Commission, 1995. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023(41) BRI"1995" CorpAuthor: British Council; British Film Commission Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Commission PubDate: 1995 PhysDes: 111 p. ; 21 cm Subject: BRITAIN More info
Interim book		British films catalogue 1991. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 027(41) "1991" CorpAuthor: British Film Institute PubDate: 1991 Subject: BRITAIN Notes: Cannes catalogue More info
Old collection book		British films catalogue 1989 London: [s.n.], 1989. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023(41) BRI"1989" Source: UK Place: London Publisher: [s.n.] PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: 64 p. ; 22 cm Subject: BRITAIN More info
book		Directory of world cinema : Volume 32, Britain 2 / edited by Neil Mitchell Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, 2015. Call No: 71(410) DIR Author: Mitchell, Neil (ed.) Source: UK Place: Bristol, UK Publisher: Intellect Books PubDate: 2015 PhysDes: 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series: Directory of World Cinema Subject: BRITISH CINEMA; BRITAIN; FAMILY IN FILMS; WAR IN FILMS Summary: "The first volume of the Directory of World Cinema: Britain provided an overview of British cinema from its earliest days to the present. In this, the second volume, the contributors focus on specific periods and trace the evolutions of individual genres and directors. The book offers essays on war and family films, as well as on LGBT cinema and representations of disability in British films." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references and filmography ISBN: 9781783203970 Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Film of the Year: The Selfish Giant (2013) -- Disability In British Cinema -- Industrial Spotlight; The British Film Institute -- Cultural Crossover; British LGBT Cinema -- On Location; Manchester --Directors / Ben Wheatley; Gurinder Chadha; Ken Russell; Danny Boyle -- Comedy -- Crime -- Documentary -- Horror -- Short Films -- Science Fiction -- Social Realism -- War -- Musicals -- Family Films -- Arthouse -- Heritage -- Recommended Reading -- British Cinema Online -- Test Your Knowledge -- Notes On Contributors -- Filmography More info
book		Documentaries on the arts : Arts Council film library catalogue London: Arts Council of Great Britain, c1977. Call No: 770 ART CorpAuthor: Arts Council of Great Britain Place: London Publisher: Arts Council of Great Britain PubDate: c1977 PhysDes: 99 p. : ill. ; 30 cm Subject: Arts Council of Great Britain Catalogs Notes: Includes suppl. (14 p.): Arts Council film library, new releases; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0728701545 (pbk.) LON: 2425101 More info
book		Documentary and the mass media / edited by John Corner London: Edward Arnold, 1986. Call No: 761 DOC Author: Corner, John (ed.) Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Edward Arnold PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: 178 p. : 22 cm Series: Stratford-upon-Avon Studies; Second series Subject: MEDIA; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; DIARY FOR TIMOTHY, A (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1946); LISTEN TO BRITAIN (UK, Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister, 1942); ROSES IN DECEMBER (US, Ana Carrigan and Bernard Stone, 1982); WORDS FOR BATTLE (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1941) Summary: "The studies in this book investigate documentary forms and methods as they have developed in film, radio and television, placing emphasis on the use of documentary approaches within the context of a national media system. They link together political and social factors with matters of 'documentary language', addressing the particular questions of representational realism and of public communication which documentaries so sharply raise but which are relevant to a far wider range of mass media activities. The specially commissioned essays in this volume offer a stimulating exploration of a lively and powerful mode; several indeed open up entirely new areas of media analysis. All are likely to offer the reader fresh insights." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Mass media. Documentaries (BNB/PRECIS); Includes bibliographical references and index; Includes index ISBN: 071316493X Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: -- select bibliography -- preface -- 1: 'the stuff of radio': developments in radio features and documentaries before the war : Paddy Scannell -- 2: authorship in documentary : sociology as an art form in mass observation : David Chaney and Michael Pickering -- 3: the documentary aesthetics of Humphrey Jennings : Bjorn Sorenssen -- 4: the origin of British television documentary: the BBC 1946-55 : Elaine Bell -- 5: the agnostic narratives of television science : Roger Silverstone -- 6: questions of magnitude : Bill Nichols -- 7: seeing is believing: the ideology of naturalism : Richard Collins -- 8: documentary meanings and the discourse of interpretation : John Corner and Kay Richardson -- 9: notes on the ascent of a ficticious mountain : Dai Vaughan -- notes on contributors -- index -- More info
book		Documenting the documentary : close readings of documentary films and video / edited by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski, forward by Bill Nichols Detroit MI: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Call No: 761 DOC Author: Grant, Barry Keith; Sloniowski, Jeanette Place: Detroit MI Publisher: Wayne State University Press PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: 488 p. ; 23 cm Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; BUNUEL, LUIS; WRIGHT, BASIL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); QUE VIVA MEXICO! (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, [prod. 1932]); HURDES, LAS (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1933); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); CITY, THE (US, Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke, 1939); SPANISH EARTH, THE (US, Joris Ivens, 1937); LISTEN TO BRITAIN (UK, Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister, 1942); BLOOD OF THE BEASTS (FR, Georges Franju,1949); SANG DES BETES, LE (FR, Georges Franju,1949); MAITRES FOUS, LES (FR, Jean Rouch, 1955); NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955); DONT LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967); HORA DE LOS HORNOS, LA (AG, Fernado E. Solanos, 1968); ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES, THE (US, Stan Brakhage, 1971); AMERICAN FAMILY, AN [TV](US, 1973); DAISY, THE STORY OF A FACELIFT (CN, Michael Rubbo, 1982); THIS IS SPINAL TAP (US, Rob Reiner, 1984); SHERMAN'S MARCH (US, Ross McElwee, 1986 [prod. 1981]); I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS I AM LIKE (US, Bill Viola, 1986); JOURNEY, THE (CN, Peter Watkins, 1987); THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988); ROGER AND ME (US, Michael Moore, 1989); TONGUES UNTIED (US, Marlon Riggs, 1989); PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990); FINDING CHRISTA (US, Camille Billops/James Hatch, 1991) Summary: Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation -- but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By closely reading documentaries as rich visual works, this anthology fills a void in the critical writing on documentaries, which tends to privilege production over aesthetic pleasure. As we perceive and comprehend the world through visual media increasingly, understanding the textual strategies by which individual documentaries are organized has become critically important. Together, the essays cover the significant developments in the history of the documentary, from the first commercially released feature, Nanook of the North (1922), to modern independent productions, such as An American Family (1973), Tongues Untied (1989), and Finding Christa (1991), and including important national and stylistic movements and various production contexts from the mainstream to the avant-garde. Seth Feldman places Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) within the context of constructivism and futurism; Vivian Sobchack discusses the strategies of Bunuel's Las Hurdas (Land without Bread, 1931) in relation to surrealism; and Joanne Hershfield explores Que viva Mexico! (1932) as the presentation of an exotic culture by a European director. Documenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balancebetween theory and criticism, abstract conceptualization and concrete analysis. --FROM PUBLISHER'S SITE Notes: includes bibliiographic references and index ISBN: 0814326390 Contents: Filmmaker as hunter / William Rothman -- Peace between man and machine / Seth Feldman -- Paradise regained / Joanne Hershfield -- Synthetic vision / Vivian Sobchack -- Art of national projection / William Guynn -- Mass psychology of fascist cinema / Frank P. Tomasulo -- American documentary finds its voice / Charlie Keil -- Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death / Thomas Waugh -- Poetics of propaganda / Jim Leach -- It was an atrocious film / Jeannette Sloniowski -- Dialogic imagination of Jean Rouch / Diane Scheinman -- Documenting the ineffable / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis -- Don't you ever just watch? / Jeanne Hall -- Ethnography in the first person / Barry Keith Grant -- Two avant-gardes / Robert Stam -- Seeing with experimental eyes / Bart Testa -- Bastard union of several forms / Jeffrey K. Ruoff -- Documentary of displaced persona / Joan Nicks -- Gender, power, and a cucumber / Carl Plantinga -- Documentary film and the discourse of hysterical/historical narrative / Lucy Fischer -- Subjectivity lost and found / Catherine Russell -- Filmmaker as global circumnavigator / Scott MacDonald -- Mirrors without memories / Linda Williams -- Documentaphobia and mixed modes / Matthew Bernstein -- Silence and its opposite / Sheila Petty -- Containing fire / Caryl Flinn -- Contested territory / Julia Lesage More info
book		The encyclopedia of British film / Edited by Brian McFarlane; associate editor: Anthony Slide; preface by Ralph Fiennes; foreword by Philip French Manchester: Manchester University Press, Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 03:71(41) MCF Author: McFarlane, Brian Edition: Fourth ed Place: Manchester Publisher: Manchester University Press PhysDes: xxx, 885 pages ; 26 cm Subject: BRITAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; MCFARLANE, BRIAN Summary: With well over 6,300 articles, this fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is a fully updated invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day, with minute listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or so of great British cinema. Brian McFarlane and Anthony Slide's meticulously researched guide is the definitive companion for anyone interested in the world of film. Previous editions have sold many thousands of copies and this fourth edition, with an introduction by Philip French, will be an essential work of reference for enthusiasts interested in the history of British cinema, and for universities and libraries. -- Book jacket ISBN: 9780719091391 Donation: Brian McFarlane More info
book		English filming, English writing / Jefferson Hunter Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, c2010. Call No: 408.1(41) HUN Author: Hunter, Jefferson Source: US Place: Bloomington IN Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: c2010 PhysDes: xii, 357 p. ; 23 cm Subject: ADAPTATIONS; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES; ADAPTATIONS. ORWELL, GEORGE; BRITISH CINEMA; CRIME DRAMAS; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. UNITED KINGDOM; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; WORLD WAR II FILMS. UK; BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945); CANTERBURY TALE, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1944); LISTEN TO BRITAIN (UK, Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister, 1942); LOOK BACK IN ANGER (UK, Tony Richardson, 1959); REMAINS OF THE DAY, THE (UK/US, James Ivory, 1993); SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986) Summary: "Jefferson Hunter examines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture in the twentieth century. He traces themes such as the influence of US crime drama on English film, and film adaptations of literary works as they appear in screen work from the 1930s to the present. A Canterbury Tale and the documentary Listen to Britain are analyzed in the context of village pageants and other wartime explorations of Englishness at risk. English crime dramas are set against the writings of George Orwell, while a famous line from Noel Coward also leads to a discussion of music and image in works including Brief Encounter and Look Back in Anger. Screen adaptation is also broached in analyses of the 1985 BBC version of Dickens's Bleak House and Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day." - BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes notes and index ISBN: 9780253221773 More info
Yet to catalogue book		The factual film / The Arts Enquiry London: Oxford University Press, 1947. Place: London Publisher: Oxford University Press PubDate: 1947 PhysDes: 260 p. ; 22 cm Subject: MOTION PICTURES - GREAT BRITAIN Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Fighting for a laugh : entertaining the British and American Armed Forces, 1939-1946 / [by] Richard Fawkes London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1978. Call No: 45:355 FAW Author: Fawkes, Richard, 1944 Place: London Publisher: Macdonald and Jane's PubDate: 1978 PhysDes: 192 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 26 cm Subject: Entertainments National Service Association (Great Britain) Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0354042017 : ª6.75 LON: 1340781 More info
Old collection book		Films of Britain 1941 London: British Council, 1941. Call No: F023(41) FIL"1941" CorpAuthor: British Council Film Department Place: London Publisher: British Council PubDate: 1941 PhysDes: 36 p. ; 22 cm Subject: BRITAIN More info
Levy Collection book		The first colour motion pictures / D B Thomas BSc PhD London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1983. Call No: 235.2 THO Author: Thomas, D B CorpAuthor: Science Museum (Great Britain) Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationery Office PubDate: 1983 PhysDes: vii, 39 p. : ill., 20 cm Subject: CAMERAS; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COLORIZATION; COLOUR; COLOUR CORRECTION; COLOUR SYSTEMS; MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY; MOTION PICTURES - GREAT BRITAIN; PRODUCTION; SMITH, GEORGE A; URBAN, CHARLES Summary: "Motion pictures in colour could be seen soon after the birth of cinema - they were hand-painted. The only natural colour process to be a commercial success before 1920 was Kinemacolor, a process invented by an Englishman, George A Smith, and exploited by an American, Charles Urban. This booklet tells the story of how Kinemacolor was developed, given its first public showing in London in 1909 and then shown in many countries in the world. Although it had its limitations, the process was successful for many years before the First World War. Some of the motion picture colour processes which superseded Kinemacolor are described. The work is based on a collection of apparatus, manuscripts, and ephemera given to the Science Museum by Charles Urban." - BOOK BLURB Notes: Reprint. First published 1969. ISBN: 0112900143 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
Old collection book		Guide to British film / Patricia Dobson (ed.) London: Screen International, 2000. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023(41) GUI"2000" Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Screen International PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: 76 p. ; 28 cm Subject: BRITAIN More info
book		The history of the British film 1896-1906 / by Rachael Low and Roger Manvell ; based upon research of the History Committee of the British Film Institute, Chairman - Cecil Hepworth London: G. Allen & Unwin, [1948]. Call No: 71(41) LOW Author: Low, Rachael; Manvell, Roger, 1909 CorpAuthor: British Film Institute. History Committee Source: UK Place: London Publisher: G. Allen & Unwin PubDate: [1948] PhysDes: 136 p., [32]p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25 cm Subject: MOTION PICTURES - GREAT BRITAIN; UNITED KINGDOM Summary: "The first volume of Rachael Low's famous history covers the first ten formative and pioneering years of the British cinema. In 1946, fifty years after the appearance of the cinema as a regular form of public entertainment in Great Britain, the British film remained conspicuously unchronicled; and so to remedy the deficiency the British Film Institute set up a Research Committee under the chairmanship of the veteren film producer Cecil Hepworth, consisting of producer George Pearson, Ernest Lindgren, Curator of the National Film Library, Roger Manvell and Rachael Low. This volume is the product of their research. The first part of the book traces the growth of the British film industry from its earliest days, including details of production, distribution and exhibition, market conditions, showmanship and early film studios. The second part describes the films of the period, including actuality and topical films, travelogues, vaudeville, comedy, drama, panorama and trick films, as well as the development of film art and contemporary technique. Included are interviews and correspondance with many of the early film pioneers then still alive, extracts from film journalism and catalogues of the period, a record of the first public exhibitions and performances, and one hundred illustrations featuring posters, portraits, studios, travelling cinemas and a unique selection of early stills. After many years our of print, this volume is now re-issued with a new jacket to match the later volumes and will be welcomed by the many film fans, students and libraries who have neergetically campaigned for its re-release. " -BOOK JACKET Notes: Includes bibliography: p. 28, and indexes ISBN: 0 04 791002 4 LON: 3066119 Contents: --PART ONE -- PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND EXHIBITION -- 1: Principal film producers before 1906 -- the producers -- autoscope co. -- bamforth & co., ltd -- british mutoscope & biograph co. ltd -- charles urban trading co. -- esme collins -- clarendin film co. -- cricks & sharp -- gaumont & co. ltd -- haggar & sons -- hepworth manufactoring co. -- mitchell & kenyon -- northern photographic works, ltd-- paul's animatograph works, ltd -- sheffield photo co. -- warwick trading co. -- walturdaw co. ltd -- williamson's kinematographic co. ltd -- 2: Early film studios -- 3: Market conditions -- 4: Showmanship -- PART TWO: THE FILMS THEMSELVES -- 1: introduction 2: the main types of british film, 1896-1906 -- actualities -- interest films -- topical films -- panoramic films and travelogues -- vaudeville -- trick films -- comedy --drama -- APPENDICES More info
book		Humphrey Jennings / Keith Beattie Manchester ; New York: Manchester University Press, 2010. Call No: 81JEN BEA Author: Beattie, Keith Place: Manchester ; New York Publisher: Manchester University Press PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: xii, 171 p. ; 23 cm. Series: British Film Makers Subject: JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; SPARE TIME (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1939); WORDS FOR BATTLE (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1941); LISTEN TO BRITAIN (UK, Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister, 1942); FIRES WERE STARTED [I WAS A FIREMAN] (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1943); SILENT VILLAGE, THE (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1943); DIARY FOR TIMOTHY, A (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1946); FAMILY PORTRAIT (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1950) Summary: An examination of the aesthetic qualities and theoretical ideas that run through the works of Humphrey Jennings, with contextual reference to British film and cultures. Notes: Includes index, filmography and bibliographic references. ISBN: 978071907855 More info
book		Inside little Britain / Matt Lucas, David Walliams & Boyd Hilton London: Ebury Press, 2006. Call No: 79LIT LUC Author: Lucas, Matt; Walliams, David; Hilton, Boyd Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Ebury Press PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: 406 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm Subject: LITTLE BRITAIN [TV] (UK, 2003-2006) Summary: "David Walliams: We're in a situation now where we are constantly in the papers. Reading outrageous stuff about ourselves and 90 per cent of the time the things they say are totally untrue. So we decided to write a book that would tell the truth about us -- the whole truth." - BACK COVER ISBN: 9780091917685 More info
title clippings file		JUTALOMUTAZAS : (HU, Istvan Darday, 1974) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: HOLIDAY IN BRITAIN [JUTALOMUTAZAS] (HU, Istvan Darday, 1974) More info
title clippings file		LITTLE BRITAIN [TV] : (UK, 2003-2006) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: LITTLE BRITAIN [TV] (UK, 2003-2006) More info
Old collection book		New British expo : a celebration of British film in 1997 / Boyd Farrow (Executive Editor) and Patricia Dobson (Editor) London: Screen International, 1997. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023(41) NEW"1997" Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Screen International PubDate: 1997 PhysDes: 64 p. ; 29 cm Subject: BRITAIN More info
Old collection book		New British expo : the guide to British film 1999 / Patricia Dobson (ed.) London: Screen International, 1999. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 023(41) GUI"1999" Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Screen International PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 64 p. ; 28 cm Subject: BRITAIN More info
journal article		Profile on Guy Hamilton in The Australasian Cinema (19/3/1982) vol.11 iss.4 p.20 PhysDes: Article Subject: EVIL UNDER THE SUN (UK?, Guy Hamilton, 1982); BATTLE OF BRITAIN, THE (UK, Guy Hamilton, 1969); MIRROR CRACK'D (UK, Guy Hamilton, 1980); GOLDFINGER (UK, Guy Hamilton, 1964); HAMILTON, GUY Summary: Interview and article with British director Guy Hamilton on his life and career. More info
book		Realism and tinsel : cinema and society in Britain, 1939-1949 / Robert Murphy New York: Routledge, 1992. Call No: 71(410) MUR Author: Murphy, Robert Source: US/UK Place: London; New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 1992 PhysDes: xiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series: Cinema and society series Subject: BRITAIN; BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945); I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1945); IN WHICH WE SERVE (UK, David Lean and Noel Coward, 1942); LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, THE (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1943); MADONNA OF THE SEVEN MOONS (UK, Arthur Crabtree, 1944); PASSIONATE FRIENDS, THE (UK, David Lean, 1949); GILLIAT, SIDNEY Summary: "Robert Murphy examines critically despised genres such as melodrama, gangster films, black thrillers, comedies, and costume pictures, finding them more immediately relevant to the desires and aspirations of the wartime audience than the cosy reassurance of 'realist' films. He shows that the conflict between ' realism' and 'tinsel' is not the simple dichotomy it might appear, and that the heritage of British cinema in the 1940s is much richer and more valuable than has hiterhto been realised." -- taken from back cover Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-265) and indexes ISBN: 0415076846 Contents: List of Illustrations -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Britain Alone -- 2 War Culture -- 3 Realism and Tinsel -- 4 The Rank Empire -- 5 Great Expectations -- 6 Passionate Friends? -- 7 Exotic Dreams -- 8 The Spiv Cycle -- 9 Morbid Burrowings -- 10 Nothing to Laugh at at All -- 11 Challenge to Hollywood -- Conclusion -- Chronology: Cinema and Society in the Forties -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Film Titles -- General Index More info
journal article		Recent films in Interview (1969) vol.1 iss.2 Author: Weiner, Robert PhysDes: Article Subject: BATTLE OF BRITAIN, THE (UK, Guy Hamilton, 1969) Summary: Review More info
Interim book		Supplement to the film extract catalogue : prepared by the Education Department, British Film Institute London: British Film Institute, [19-?]. Call No: F026(41) BFI BRI CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: [19-?] Subject: BRITAIN; FILMOGRAPHIES More info
book		Traditions in world cinema / Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer and Steven Jay Schneider (eds) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Call No: 709 TRA Source: UK Place: Edinburgh Publisher: Edinburgh University Press PubDate: 2006 PhysDes: 266 p. : 24 cm Subject: NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; GLOBALISATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; NEOREALISM; NOUVELLE VAGUE; EXPRESSIONISM; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; BRITAIN; DOGMA; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA; BRAZIL; ARGENTINA; AFRICA IN FILMS; ISRAEL; IRAN; INDIA; CITY OF SADNESS, A [; MELODRAMA; SONGS IN FILMS; JAPAN; HORROR FILMS; USA Summary: The core volume in the Traditions in World Cinema series, this book brings together a colourful and wide-ranging collection of world cinematic traditions – national, regional and global – all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, reassessment. Topics include: German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, British new wave, Czech new wave, Danish Dogma, post-Communist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-revolutionary African traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi pian melodrama, Japanese horror, new Hollywood cinema and global found footage cinemas. ISBN: 0748618635 More info
title clippings file		WELCOME TO BRITAIN : (UK, Ben Lewin, 1976) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Publicity; Stills; Clippings Subject: WELCOME TO BRITAIN (UK, Ben Lewin, 1976) More info
title clippings file		WELCOME TO BRITAIN : (UK, Ben Lewin, 1976) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE Subject: WELCOME TO BRITAIN (UK, Ben Lewin, 1976) More info
title clippings file		WELCOME TO BRITAIN : (UK, Ben Lewin, 1976) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: WELCOME TO BRITAIN (UK, Ben Lewin, 1976) More info

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Some of our items are now available digitally. On the catalogue they are indicated with an ‘online resource’ label above the thumbnail.

Some items have direct links that you can use if you are eligible. Some items are only available to RMIT staff and students or may be otherwise limited.

Some items are not deliverable directly. Please request these items using the search results form (or contact us) and we will contact you to check eligibility and to arrange delivery. Please note that digital clippings files for films prior to 2020 may have different contents to their physical equivalents and you should check both versions if possible.

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