Charles D Barr

Ealing Studios: A Movie Book

This classic study of British filmmaking, first published in the United States in 1980, has been updated to bring a 1990s perspective to the work of the studio that gave the world such unforgettable comedies as Passport to Pimlico and The Lavender Hill Mob. The heyday of Ealing Studios lasted approx...

British Cinema: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial - often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-...

Hitchcock Lost and Found: The Forgotten Films (Screen Classics)

Known as the celebrated director of critical and commercial successes such as Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963), Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his distinctive visual style and signature motifs. While recent books and articles discussing his life and work focus on the production and philosophy of h...

Vertigo (BFI Film Classics)

Vertigo (1958) is widely regarded as not only one of Hitchcock's best films, but one of the greatest films of world cinema. Made at the time when the old studio system was breaking up, it functions both as an embodiment of the supremely seductive visual pleasures that 'classical Hollywood' could off...

Ealing Studios

Examines the relationship to the Ealing team of two major directors who worked there, Alexander Mackendrick and Robert Hamer, and places the attitudes and assumptions embodied in its films in the wider context of wartime and post-war Britain as it was and as it saw itself.

Vertigo (BFI Film Classics)

The author documents the crucial role of screenwriters Alec Coppell and Samuel Taylor and, by a combination of textual and contextual analysis, explores the reasons why Vertigo has come to exert such a continuing fascination both on audiences and on a wide range of critics and theorists.

Laurel and Hardy.

Laurel and Hardy.

Ealing Studios

Laurel and Hardy.

Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios

All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema

Typically British: A Short Hiestory of the Cinema in Britain

Vertigo