British Cinema of the 90s

by Murphy, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780851707624
• ISBN10: 0851707629
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-26
• Publisher: British Film Institute

Summary

This work examines major box office hits like "The Full Monty" as well as critically acclaimed films like "Under the Skin". It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisation of British film culture, Hollywood and Europe, changing representations of sexuality and ethnicity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	v
Notes on Contributors	vi
Introduction	ix
A Path through the Moral Maze	1	(16)
Robert Murphy
The British Film Industry in the 1990s	17	(10)
Peter Todd
Something for Everyone: British Film Culture in the 1990s	27	(10)
Geoff Brown
The Film Industry and the Government: `Endless Mr Beans and Mr Bonds'?	37	(11)
Toby Miller
Spoilt for Choice? Multiplexes in the 90s	48	(12)
Stuart Hanson
Pathways into the Industry	60	(8)
Kate Ogborn
As Others See Us: British Film-making and Europe in the 90s	68	(12)
Ian Christie
Hollywood UK	80	(8)
Neil Watson
Image and Nation in 1990s British Cinema	88	(12)
Moya Luckett
Here and Then: Space, Place and Nostalgia in British Youth Cinema of the 1990s	100	(9)
Karen Lury
Black British Cinema in the 90s: Going Going Gone	109	(6)
Karen Alexander
Fewer Weddings and More Funerals: Changes in the Heritage Film	115	(10)
Pamela Church Gibson
Two Sisters, the Fogey, the Priest and his Lover: Sexual Plurality in 1990s British Cinema	125	(10)
Stella Bruzzi
Unseen British Cinema	135	(10)
Geoffrey Macnab
Travelling Light: New Art Cinema in the 90s	145	(11)
Claire Smith
Men in the 90s	156	(11)
Claire Monk
Not Having It All: Women and Film in the 1990s	167	(11)
Charlotte Brunsdon
Failure and Utopianism: Representations of the Working Class in British Cinema of the 1990s	178	(10)
John Hill
Select Bibliography	188	(3)
Index	191