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Film Critics and British Film Culture New Shots in the Dark

Shail Robert Hall Sheldon
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781399510509
Publisert
2025-08-31
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Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
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234 mm
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156 mm
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G, 01
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Engelsk
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Shail Robert
Hall Sheldon

Om bidragsyterne

Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research at Leeds Beckett University. He is the author of The Children’s Film Foundation (2016), Tony Richardson (2012), Stanley Baker (2008) and British Directors (2007). He is also the editor or co-editor of several anthologies, including Crank It Up – Jason Statham (2019), Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film (2019) and Seventies British Cinema (2008). Sheldon Hall is an Emeritus Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. A former film journalist, he has contributed to numerous books and journals on British and American cinema. He is the author of Armchair Cinema: A History of Feature Films on British Television, 1929-1981 (EUP, 2024) and Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It (2005/2014), co-author of Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History (2010), and co-editor of Widescreen Worldwide (2010).

Film Critics and British Film Culture New Shots in the Dark

Shail Robert Hall Sheldon
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This lively, wide-ranging collection focuses on an important dimension of British film culture – the role of the film critic – that has been neglected, mined unthinkingly or marginalised in previous accounts. Encompassing film annuals and broadcast media as well as newspaper columnists, these well-researched accounts – breathing life in by-line names such as C.A. Lejeune or Dilys Powell – provide fascinating historical detail to illuminate the broader historical contexts in which they were produced and circulated. Giving the lie to assertions that there is no such thing as British film culture, this collection will make essential reading for anyone interested in its changing nature and significance.

Andrew Spicer, Professor of Cultural Production, University of the West of England Bristol

For decades, cinema audiences have turned to the film reviews featured in national and local newspapers, listened to commentators via radio, television and, latterly, the internet, and read fan magazines to learn about the latest releases. These critics helped shape the responses of generations of film fans, creating success and failure, as well as controversy. This wide-ranging collection brings together some of the leading academics on British film history to consider the role of these commentators. It covers the work of influential critics like Dilys Powell and Raymond Durgnat and key magazines such as Time Out, Monthly Film Bulletin and Radio Times. Contributors include leading scholars such as James Chapman, Pamela Hutchinson and Julian Petley, along with the screenwriter and filmmaker David McGillivray and others who have worked as film journalists themselves. For film students or cinema enthusiasts anywhere, this volume provides an insightful analysis of the British film critic.
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Examines how British film critics and commentators have helped shape our understanding of cinema culture.
List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction by Sheldon Hall and Robert Shail Part I. Contexts 2. The Histogram and the List: The Director in British Film Criticism Peter Hutchings 3. ‘The Director of the Film is the man who chiefly matters’: How British Critics Invented the Auteur Theory James Chapman 4. The Mid-century Critic as Cultural Celebrity and Cinephile Role Model Melanie Selfe 5. The Critics, the Commentariat and the Consensus Julian Petley Part II. Critics 6. F. Maurice Speed and the Vanishing Audience Jonathan Rigby 7. The Making of C.A. Lejeune, Film Critic Pamela Hutchinson 8. The Critic Entranced: Dilys Powell and the Voice of Film Criticism Laura Mayne 9. Raymond Durgnat and Films and Filming Henry K. Miller 10. The British Film Critic in Action: An Insider’s Reflections David McGillivray Part III. Publications 11. Pulling Pictures to Pieces: Fans and Film Criticism in Picturegoer (1918–1940) Lies Lanckman 12. ‘So much more than TV times’: Film Coverage in Radio Times and TVTimes Sheldon Hall 13. The Monthly Film Bulletin vs. Leslie Halliwell: Critical Discourses of the 1970s and 1980s Robert Shail 14. The Critic-Turned-Filmmaker and the Time Out Film Section Ieuan Franklin 15. Jack Babuscio, Gay News and the Development of a Gay Film Criticism Andrew Moor Index
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A wide-ranging examination of the role of the film critic in British cinema culture

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This lively, wide-ranging collection focuses on an important dimension of British film culture – the role of the film critic – that has been neglected, mined unthinkingly or marginalised in previous accounts. Encompassing film annuals and broadcast media as well as newspaper columnists, these well-researched accounts – breathing life in by-line names such as C.A. Lejeune or Dilys Powell – provide fascinating historical detail to illuminate the broader historical contexts in which they were produced and circulated. Giving the lie to assertions that there is no such thing as British film culture, this collection will make essential reading for anyone interested in its changing nature and significance.

Andrew Spicer, Professor of Cultural Production, University of the West of England Bristol

For decades, cinema audiences have turned to the film reviews featured in national and local newspapers, listened to commentators via radio, television and, latterly, the internet, and read fan magazines to learn about the latest releases. These critics helped shape the responses of generations of film fans, creating success and failure, as well as controversy. This wide-ranging collection brings together some of the leading academics on British film history to consider the role of these commentators. It covers the work of influential critics like Dilys Powell and Raymond Durgnat and key magazines such as Time Out, Monthly Film Bulletin and Radio Times. Contributors include leading scholars such as James Chapman, Pamela Hutchinson and Julian Petley, along with the screenwriter and filmmaker David McGillivray and others who have worked as film journalists themselves. For film students or cinema enthusiasts anywhere, this volume provides an insightful analysis of the British film critic.
Les mer
Examines how British film critics and commentators have helped shape our understanding of cinema culture.
List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction by Sheldon Hall and Robert Shail Part I. Contexts 2. The Histogram and the List: The Director in British Film Criticism Peter Hutchings 3. ‘The Director of the Film is the man who chiefly matters’: How British Critics Invented the Auteur Theory James Chapman 4. The Mid-century Critic as Cultural Celebrity and Cinephile Role Model Melanie Selfe 5. The Critics, the Commentariat and the Consensus Julian Petley Part II. Critics 6. F. Maurice Speed and the Vanishing Audience Jonathan Rigby 7. The Making of C.A. Lejeune, Film Critic Pamela Hutchinson 8. The Critic Entranced: Dilys Powell and the Voice of Film Criticism Laura Mayne 9. Raymond Durgnat and Films and Filming Henry K. Miller 10. The British Film Critic in Action: An Insider’s Reflections David McGillivray Part III. Publications 11. Pulling Pictures to Pieces: Fans and Film Criticism in Picturegoer (1918–1940) Lies Lanckman 12. ‘So much more than TV times’: Film Coverage in Radio Times and TVTimes Sheldon Hall 13. The Monthly Film Bulletin vs. Leslie Halliwell: Critical Discourses of the 1970s and 1980s Robert Shail 14. The Critic-Turned-Filmmaker and the Time Out Film Section Ieuan Franklin 15. Jack Babuscio, Gay News and the Development of a Gay Film Criticism Andrew Moor Index
Les mer
A wide-ranging examination of the role of the film critic in British cinema culture

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399510509
Publisert
2025-08-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Redaktør
Shail Robert
Hall Sheldon

Om bidragsyterne

Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research at Leeds Beckett University. He is the author of The Children’s Film Foundation (2016), Tony Richardson (2012), Stanley Baker (2008) and British Directors (2007). He is also the editor or co-editor of several anthologies, including Crank It Up – Jason Statham (2019), Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film (2019) and Seventies British Cinema (2008). Sheldon Hall is an Emeritus Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. A former film journalist, he has contributed to numerous books and journals on British and American cinema. He is the author of Armchair Cinema: A History of Feature Films on British Television, 1929-1981 (EUP, 2024) and Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It (2005/2014), co-author of Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History (2010), and co-editor of Widescreen Worldwide (2010).

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