Manchester University Press, 2010. — 171 p. Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representational approaches transcended accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revised the strict codes of British documentary film of the 1930s and...
Manchester University Press, 2012. - 334 pp. In a long and varied career, Lindsay Anderson made training films, documentaries, searing family dramas and blistering satires, including This Sporting Life , O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital . Students of British cinema and television from the 1950s to 1990s will find this book a valuable source of information about a director...
University Press of Mississippi, 1992. - 799 pp.
Moviegoers often assume that famous director Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and "It's a Wonderful Life"). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography, the...
University of Illinois Press, 2011. - 192 pp.
In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist - a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions. In contrast with Leigh's prevailing reputation as a straightforward crafter of social realist movies, O'Sullivan illuminates the...
University Press of Kentucky, 2006. - 545 pp. Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908-1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965). British-born Lean asserted himself in Hollywood as a major filmmaker with his epic...
Manchester University Press, 2005. - 200 pp.
This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director's work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, examining the artistic and cultural influences which shaped his films.
Asquith's silent films were compared favourably to those of his eminent contemporary Alfred...
Пер. с англ. К. Косенковой. — Москва: Rosebud Publishing, 2018. — 432 с. — ISBN 978-5-905712-30-2; ISBN 978-5-905712-29-6. Фильмография Линдсея Андерсона (1923-1994) насчитывает всего пять полнометражных игровых картин — что не мешает ему по сей день оставаться одним из самых заметных британских кинематографистов. Страстный любитель кино и влиятельный критик, в середине 1950-х...
СПб.: Любавич, 2011. — 168 с., ил. — ISBN: 978-5-86983-324-2. В книге рассказывается о жизни и творчестве Дерека Джармена (1942 — 1994) — одного из самых ярких независимых кинорежиссеров второй половины XX века. Но творчество Джармена не ограничивалось только кинематографом. На основе обширного документального материала автор представляет Джармена в его разнообразных амплуа:...
Москва: Ад Маргинем Пресс, 2017. — 216 с. — (Критические биографии). — ISBN 978-5-04-090634-5. Дерек Джармен (1942-1994) известен прежде всего как один из наиболее оригинальных независимых режиссеров Европы, на счету которого дюжина полнометражных фильмов, более двадцати клипов (в том числе снятых для The Smiths и Pet Shop Boys) и три награды «Тедди» - специального приза...
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