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Reframing British Cinema, 1918-1928: Between Restraint and Passion (Paperback, 2003 Ed.)
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This is a major new study of British Cinemais formative years.
Between 1918-1928 British film was poised between a Victorian past
and a future marked out as American. Examining a cinema
inextricably intertwined with notions of theatricality,
pictorialism and literariness, in which the high cultural,
middlebrow and popular intersect, this book re-evaluates the little
known but interesting and often startling films of the 1920s.
Films such as the Blackpool melodrama Hindle Wakes, Guy Newellis
Hardeyesque meditation Fox Farm, Graham Cuttsis exuberant
adaptation The Rat (starring Ivor Novello as a Parisian apache!)
Maurice Elveyis Comradeship, a haunting evocation of lives changed
utterly after the First World War and Alfred Hitchcockis early
works are all considered afresh within British cultural traditions
and are related to a specifically British mode of perception
distinct from the norms of European art or popular American
cinema.
By challenging limited conceptions of British cinema the book shows
how the oppositions of underplayed performances and theatricalised
spaces; of private passion and public restraint, of pictorial
composition and social document, made for a cinema both distinctive
and conventional.
Through its recourse to adaptation and quotation and the exchange
across media and social classes of different forms and
representations, this cinema is revealed to be one that also had
much to say about class, about the changing role of women and about
a society in transition which had its own aesthetic practices with
which to present its very varied set of stories.
Based on years of archival research Christine Gledhillis
revisionist study extends our knowledge ofthis little known period
of British film making. Through its re-evaluation of its relations
to theatre, visual culture and literary tradition, this book will
alter our sense of the origins and trajectory of British film in
the twentieth century.
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