Film Critics and British Film Culture
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-1050-9 (ISBN)
For decades, cinema audiences have turned to the film reviews featured in national and local newspapers, listened to commentators via radio, television and, latterly, the internet, and read fan magazines to learn about the latest releases. These critics helped shape the responses of generations of film fans, creating success and failure, as well as controversy.
This wide-ranging collection brings together some of the leading academics on British film history to consider the role of these commentators. It covers the work of influential critics like Dilys Powell and Raymond Durgnat and key magazines such as Time Out, Monthly Film Bulletin and Radio Times. Contributors include leading scholars such as James Chapman, Pamela Hutchinson and Julian Petley, along with the screenwriter and filmmaker David McGillivray and others who have worked as film journalists themselves.
For film students or cinema enthusiasts anywhere, this volume provides an insightful analysis of the British film critic.
Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research at Leeds Beckett University. He is the author of The Children’s Film Foundation (2016), Tony Richardson (2012), Stanley Baker (2008) and British Directors (2007). He is also the editor or co-editor of several anthologies, including Crank It Up – Jason Statham (2019), Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film (2019) and Seventies British Cinema (2008). Sheldon Hall is an Emeritus Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. A former film journalist, he has contributed to numerous books and journals on British and American cinema. He is the author of Armchair Cinema: A History of Feature Films on British Television, 1929-1981 (EUP, 2024) and Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It (2005/2014), co-author of Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History (2010), and co-editor of Widescreen Worldwide (2010).
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction by Sheldon Hall and Robert Shail
Part I. Contexts
2. The Histogram and the List: The Director in British Film Criticism
Peter Hutchings
3. ‘The Director of the Film is the man who chiefly matters’: How British Critics Invented the Auteur Theory
James Chapman
4. The Mid-century Critic as Cultural Celebrity and Cinephile Role Model
Melanie Selfe
5. The Critics, the Commentariat and the Consensus
Julian Petley
Part II. Critics
6. F. Maurice Speed and the Vanishing Audience
Jonathan Rigby
7. The Making of C.A. Lejeune, Film Critic
Pamela Hutchinson
8. The Critic Entranced: Dilys Powell and the Voice of Film Criticism
Laura Mayne
9. Raymond Durgnat and Films and Filming
Henry K. Miller
10. The British Film Critic in Action: An Insider’s Reflections
David McGillivray
Part III. Publications
11. Pulling Pictures to Pieces: Fans and Film Criticism in Picturegoer (1918–1940)
Lies Lanckman
12. ‘So much more than TV times’: Film Coverage in Radio Times and TVTimes
Sheldon Hall
13. The Monthly Film Bulletin vs. Leslie Halliwell: Critical Discourses of the 1970s and 1980s
Robert Shail
14. The Critic-Turned-Filmmaker and the Time Out Film Section
Ieuan Franklin
15. Jack Babuscio, Gay News and the Development of a Gay Film Criticism
Andrew Moor
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-1050-9 / 1399510509 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-1050-9 / 9781399510509 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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