Websites and Bibliography
This is just a very brief list of books and websites, but it would be a good place to start.
Useful Weblinks:
- www.imdb.com – invaluable help to track down all films and directors.
- www.wikiedia.org – useful site for general knowledge and history of British film
- www.wjec.co.uk/film – find out what the exam board says!
- www.bfi.co.uk – a fantastic site for British Film
- www.britishfilm.org.uk – a great site for the history
- www.britfilms.com – practical help for British filmmakers
- www.bbfc.co.uk – The British Board of Film Classification
- www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk – the Government agency for film in the UK
- www.bafta.org – the British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- www.britmovie.co.uk – dedicated to classic British cinema
- www.britishpathe.com – archive of British news reels – news, entertainment, social history and sport.
Bibliography
General:
- The Cinema Book (BFI Film Classics) edited by Cook & Bernink. This has some excellent information on Ealing and Hammer studios and British auteurs.
- The British Cinema Book (BFI Film Classics) – by Robert Murphy
- The Graham Greene Film Reader – Ed. David Parkinson
Issues:
- Typical Men: The Representation of Masculinity in Popular British Cinema (Cinema and Society) – Andrew Spcier
- Women in British cinema: mad, bad, and dangerous to know – Sue Harper
- The British Working Class in Postwar Films – Philip Gillett
- British Horror Cinema – Steve Chibnall
- This Is England: British Film and the People’s War, 1939-1945 – Neil Rattigan
Biography/Autobiography
- Charmed Lives – Michael Korda (the Producer, Alexander Korda’s brother)
- Olivier – Anthony Holden
- Vivien Leigh – Anne Edwards
- The Moon’s A Balloon – David Niven
- In Search of The Third Man- Charles Drazin
- More or Less – Kenneth More
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