Michael Balcon's 25 Years in Films

Michael Balcon's 25 Years in Films
Title Michael Balcon's 25 Years in Films PDF eBook
Author Monja Danischewsky
Publisher London, World Film Publications
Pages 116
Release 1947
Genre BALCON, MICHAEL, SIR,1896-
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Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios
Title Ealing Studios PDF eBook
Author Charles Barr
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 240
Release 1998-01-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780520215542

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A study of British filmmaking

Michael Balcon

Michael Balcon
Title Michael Balcon PDF eBook
Author Geoff Brown
Publisher
Pages 136
Release 1984
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN

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Ealing Revisited

Ealing Revisited
Title Ealing Revisited PDF eBook
Author Mark Duguid
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 686
Release 2019-07-25
Genre Art
ISBN 1838715452

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Ealing Revisited provides a major reappraisal of one of British cinema's best-loved institutions, Ealing Studios. During its heyday, Ealing produced a string of classic comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955), but there is much more to Ealing than these films, as this volume of new writing on the studio shows. Addressing both known and less familiar aspects of Ealing's story, its films, actors and technicians, the contributors uncover what has gone unexplored, or unspoken, in previous histories of the studio, and consider the impact that Ealing has had on British cultural life from the 1930s to the present. Listed in the Independent on Sunday's Cinema books of 2012 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/ios-books-of-the-year-2012-cinema-8373713.html

British Film Institute Film Classics

British Film Institute Film Classics
Title British Film Institute Film Classics PDF eBook
Author Rob White
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 656
Release 2003
Genre Motion pictures
ISBN 9781579583286

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Went the Day Well?

Went the Day Well?
Title Went the Day Well? PDF eBook
Author Penelope Houston
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 74
Release 2012-07-30
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1844577120

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Went the Day Well? is one of the most unusual pictures Ealing Studios produced, a distinctly unsentimental war film made in the darkest days of World War II, and nothing like the loveable comedies that later became the Ealing trademark. Its clear-eyed view of the potential for violence lurking just below the surface in a quiet English village possibly owes something to the Graham Greene story on which it is based, though, as Penelope Houston shows, there remains a mystery about the extent to which Greene was actually involved in the scripting. Or perhaps the direction by the Brazilian born Cavalcanti, a maverick within the Ealing coterie, is the chief reason why Went the Day Well? avoids the cosy feel of later, more familiar, Ealing films. In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Geoff Brown pays homage to Penelope Houston's astute study, and places the book in the context of Went the Day Well?'s changing critical reception. Brown discusses the non-English qualities of the film's narrative, and the extent to which Cavalcanti brought a foreign sensibility to its very English setting.

Destination London

Destination London
Title Destination London PDF eBook
Author Tim Bergfelder
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 280
Release 2008-08-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0857450190

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The legacy of emigrés in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature. Destination London is the first book to redress this imbalance. Focusing on areas such as exile, genre, technological transfer, professional training and education, cross-cultural exchange and representation, it begins by mapping the reasons for this neglect before examining the contributions made to British cinema by emigré directors, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, set designers, and composers. It goes on to assess the cultural and economic contexts of transnational industry collaborations in the 1920s, artistic cosmopolitanism in the 1930s, and anti-Nazi propaganda in the 1940s.