Picture Perfect
Landscape, Place and Travel in British Cinema Before 1930
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
143 pages
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9-1/10 x 6-1/5
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© 2007
The British cinema has drawn extensively on our national landscapes. Filmmakers have explored the entrenched myth of an idyllic rural tradition, intimately bound up with a popular definition of national heritage. Conversely, within a documentary-realist framework, they have looked at the contemporary urban aesthetic, derived partly from a Victorian tradition of social investigation.
The fifth in a series of volumes from the annual British Silent Cinema Festival held in Nottingham (and the first to be published by Exeter), this collective study offers an original treatment of the relationship between pre-1930 cinema and landscape. The Nottingham festival from which this collection derives brought together a group of leading specialists – practitioners, academics and individual researchers – who between them provide a detailed investigation into the national cinema before the sound era.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Alan Burton and Laraine Porter
Location, Location, Location: The Sixth British Silent Cinema Weekend
Bryony Dixon
On Location in Edwardian Britain: Urban and Rural Violence
Tony Fletcher
The Marketing of Landscapes in Silent British Cinema
Paul Moody
Narrative and Pictorialism in Post-Pioneer Hepworth Films
Simon Brown
Pastoral Transformations in 1920s British Cinema
Christine Gledhill
'The Plucky Girl' and the 'Pigeon to Pluck': Characters, Locations and Entertainment Forms in Rogues of London
Judith Cowan
Trainers and Temptresses: The British Racing Drama
Judith McLaren
The First Cameraman in Iceland: Travel Film and Travel Literature
Ivo Blom
The Anglo-Boer War in North London: A Micro-Study
Ian Christie
'Everyone's Doing the Riviera' Because 'It's So Much Nicer in Nice'
Amy Sargeant
The City of the Future
Patrick Keiller
Cooperation and the Contestation of Public Space
Alan Burton
Billy Merson's Monologue: Blighted My Life
Michael Eaton
Index
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Alan Burton and Laraine Porter
Location, Location, Location: The Sixth British Silent Cinema Weekend
Bryony Dixon
On Location in Edwardian Britain: Urban and Rural Violence
Tony Fletcher
The Marketing of Landscapes in Silent British Cinema
Paul Moody
Narrative and Pictorialism in Post-Pioneer Hepworth Films
Simon Brown
Pastoral Transformations in 1920s British Cinema
Christine Gledhill
'The Plucky Girl' and the 'Pigeon to Pluck': Characters, Locations and Entertainment Forms in Rogues of London
Judith Cowan
Trainers and Temptresses: The British Racing Drama
Judith McLaren
The First Cameraman in Iceland: Travel Film and Travel Literature
Ivo Blom
The Anglo-Boer War in North London: A Micro-Study
Ian Christie
'Everyone's Doing the Riviera' Because 'It's So Much Nicer in Nice'
Amy Sargeant
The City of the Future
Patrick Keiller
Cooperation and the Contestation of Public Space
Alan Burton
Billy Merson's Monologue: Blighted My Life
Michael Eaton
Index
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