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David Christopher
100 Apocalypse Films

British Film Institute

100 Apocalypse Films explores one of cinema's most enduring and revealing narrative genres through 100 key movies from around the world.From killer viruses and alien invasions to zombie plagues, nuclear w…

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David Christopher
100 Apocalypse Films

British Film Institute

100 Apocalypse Films explores one of cinema's most enduring and revealing narrative genres through 100 key movies from around the world.From killer viruses and alien invasions to zombie plagues, nuclear w…

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Alex Davidson
100 Queer Films Before Stonewall

British Film Institute

The Stonewall riots were a turning point in queer history, sparking the foundation of the modern Gay Liberation Movement. This book explores LGBTQ+ representation in film through 100 features and shorts r…

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Alex Davidson
100 Queer Films Before Stonewall

British Film Institute

The Stonewall riots were a turning point in queer history, sparking the foundation of the modern Gay Liberation Movement. This book explores LGBTQ+ representation in film through 100 features and shorts r…

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Lee Hill
Easy Rider

British Film Institute

Easy Rider (1969) broke the mould of Hollywood studio production, making stars of Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, and launching a new wave of radical and experimental American cinema. One o…

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Simon Payne
Experimental Cinema

British Film Institute

Experimental Cinema examines a range of structures, systems and strategies that film and video artists have developed from the late 1960s to the present. Over the decades, artists have responded to the ev…

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Andy Birtwistle
Film Sound Modernism

British Film Institute

Despite the key contribution of sound to the development of cinema as a modern (and modernist) art form, analyses of the relationship between film and modernism often overlook the key role played by sound…

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Lynda Nead
It Always Rains on Sunday

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Robert Hamer's 'Dark Ealing'It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) is a claustrophobic domestic melodrama, combining elements of film noir and gritty realism, in the story of a frustrated housewife, Rose Sandig…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

British Film Institute

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been work…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

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On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been work…

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Cathy Lomax
Making Up the Star

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This book examines the integral role that makeup plays in the construction and promotion of female stardom, focusing on the transitional Hollywood period, between 1950 and 1970, a time of great change in …

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Cathy Lomax
Making Up the Star

British Film Institute

This book examines the integral role that makeup plays in the construction and promotion of female stardom, focusing on the transitional Hollywood period, between 1950 and 1970, a time of great change in …

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Heather Hendershot
Nashville

British Film Institute

Robert Altman's Nashville (1975) is simultaneously an intimate film about interpersonal connection and disconnection, and a sprawling, meandering portrait of American societal exhaustion in the wake of Vi…

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Tom May
Play for Today

British Film Institute

Play for Today was the BBC's groundbreaking television anthology drama series, epitomising entertainment, social commitment and artistic and intellectual ambition. More than three hundred original televis…

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Tom May
Play for Today

British Film Institute

Play for Today was the BBC's groundbreaking television anthology drama series, epitomising entertainment, social commitment and artistic and intellectual ambition. More than three hundred original televis…

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Sunera Thobani
Shah Rukh Khan

British Film Institute

In this unique study of the star, Sunera Thobani unpacks Shah Rukh Khan's unlikely and yet unparalleled rise to fame, set against the backdrop of India's evolving socio-political landscape.Thobani provide…

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Stephen Dwoskin Is...

British Film Institute

This open access book presents the first critical analysis of the work of Stephen Dwoskin, groundbreaking filmmaker, artist, graphic designer and writer.Stephen Dwoskin (1939-2012) was a groundbreaking fi…

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Jane Giles
The Crying Game

British Film Institute

Set against the backdrop of the Troubles, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game (1992) focuses on the triangular relationship between an IRA volunteer, Fergus (Stephen Rea), a Black British soldier (Forest Whitak…

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Elizabeth Evans
The Enchanting Kinora

British Film Institute

Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras, the Kinora system, launched in 1903, was one of the first amateur filmmaking devices and represents one of the earliest attempts to create a domest…

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Simon Callow
The Night of the Hunter

British Film Institute

The Night of the Hunter (1955) was Charles Laughton's only film as director. Part expressionist horror movie, part luminous fairy tale, it contains some of the most haunting images in cinema. Willa (Shell…

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