An Autobiography of British Cinema tell the story of British film by those who made it.

A fresh, concise but wide-ranging introduction to and overview of British and Irish cinema, this volume contains 24 essays, each on a separate seminal film from

This is the first book to provide a thorough examination of the British 'B' movie, from the war years to the 1960s. The authors draw on archival research, conte

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumière brothers . But while th

This book offers a comprehensive and revisionist overview of British cinema as, on the one hand, a commercial entertainment industry and, on the other, a series