The Trauma Film and British Romantic Cinema 1940-1960 John Orr July 2009 Feature Articles Trauma has long played a key role in cinema. John Orr argues that “What is out there as waking nightmare in a dangerous world is often a mirror of what is hidden in here, in the human heart.” In Orr’s provocative analysis, the spectre of key British filmmaker Michael Powell inevitably emerges.
The British New Wave: A Certain Tendency? by B.F. Taylor Michael Fleming April 2009 Book Reviews We know immediately from the title that this book accepts the existence of a “New Wave” in British cinema. B.F. Taylor begins with an unambiguous canon. For the record, his series in full is: Room at the Top...
Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 (British Film Institute) Richard Armstrong August 2008 DVD Reviews Richard Armstrong takes a look at this historically significant DVD compilation from the British Film Institute.
