Armchair Cinema
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399520140 (ISBN)
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Since broadcast television first emerged as a serious alternative to the cinema, more people have seen films on TV than by any other means. Feature films originally made for the big screen were initially withheld from TV by the film industry in the competition for audiences. Struggles between film and television interests settled into a truce in the mid-1960s, since when thousands of films have been shown on British terrestrial television each year. They assumed particular importance in the 1970s and 1980s, when cinema blockbusters became major TV events and themed seasons gave viewers access to many older movies.
This book provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the ways in which cinema films have figured in TV programming in the UK and the role that British television has played in changing the consumption of film entertainment.
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 Illustrations
Introduction: Meet Mr Lucifer – Cinema, Television and Films on TV
Part One: Organisations and Acquisition
Chapter 1: The Magic Box – Television, Tele-Cinema and Tele-Talkies (1929-39)
Chapter 2: The Smallest Show on Earth – Cinema versus Television (1945-52)
Chapter 3: Network – The BBC at Bay, ITV Begins (1952-58)
Chapter 4: The Empire Strikes Back – The FIDO Saga (1958-64)
Chapter 5: The Great Escape – Emptying the Vaults (1964-73)
Chapter 6: The Sound of Wind – Blockbusters on the Box (1973-81)
Part Two: Programming and Regulation
Chapter 7: Saturday Night and Sunday Afternoon – Scheduling Films on Television
Chapter 8: The Home and the World – Foreign-Language Films on Television
Chapter 9: The Rules of the Game – Regulating Films on Television
Chapter 10: Appointments with Fear – Horror Films on Television
Chapter 11: Abridged Too Far – Editing and Censorship of Films for Television
Chapter 12: Witnesses for the Prosecution – Report on Reports
Epilogue: Things to Come – Into the Eighties
Appendix 1: BBC Film Statistics
Appendix 2: ITV Film Statistics
Appendix 3: FIDO Filmography
Appendix 4: List of Abbreviations
Appendix 5: List of Personnel
Bibliography
Filmography
General Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 54 colour illustrations, 58 black and white tables |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 172 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399520140 / 9781399520140 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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