Paul B Swann

Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain

When this book was originally published in 1987, the American feature film had been colonising the world’s imagination for over 75 years and the book studies that experience in Britain, where American films have always dominated cinema screens, both commercially and intellectually. The timeframe is ...

The British Documentary Film Movement, 1926-1946 (Cambridge Studies in Film)

The most important and internationally influential development in British cinema was the documentary film movement led by John Grierson in the 1930s and 1940s. This is a political and social history of that movement, which was characterized by actuality-based films made outside the commercial indust...

Birth of a Gypsy Queen: Three Short Stories

Come along for the ride as we look into the life of one Talaitha Comlies, first Queen of the Gypsies. From the chaos that surrounds her birth, through the height of her mortal power, to the depths of the depravity to which she falls, Talaitha shows why the greatest agent of evil is a hero who falls...

The Corpse Candle: and other nightmares

An anthology of 13 short horror stories from ten different authors from across the world.

The Hollywood Feature Film in Post-War Britain

The British Documentary Film Movement, 1926-1946

Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain