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British Film Guides
Turner Classic Movies British Film Guides represent an innovative partnership between I.B.Tauris and TCM. Described by The Guardian as ‘a valuable resource of critical work on the UK’s neglected film history’ and by Sight & Sound as yielding ‘sharp insights into the films’, these lively and authoritative guides to the best films that British cinema has to offer are published for film enthusiasts, scholars and students alike. Each tells the full story of a key British film and offers detailed analysis of the film itself. The film is placed in its historical and cinematic context and its place in world cinema, as well as detailing its director’s and actors’ careers and how audiences and critics have responded to it up to the present day.
- Author: Christine Geraghty
- 29 Oct 2004
- Paperback
- Price: £12.99
Described by Stuart Hall as 'one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years', My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi.
- Author: Mark Connelly
- 26 Aug 2005
- Paperback
- Price: £12.99
"The Red Shoes", released in 1948, by many accounts is a successful British film. This book illuminates this film as a highlight of world cinema. It studies the film, offering insights into the work and the characters at the heart of the story, the Svengali-like impresario and his obsession, the ingenue dancer embodied by the Moira Shearer.