This text represents the progress made in exploring the history of British cinema, providing a comprehensive account of a dynamic and growing area in film studies. This second edition has been expanded and includes 12 new contributors. It extends coverage of topics such as British silent cinema in the 1920s, looking back at the British new wave, spectacle and the "Boy's Own" tradition in British cinema, the cinema of excess of the 1970s, British cinema and American aspirations; Celtic traditions in British cinema, the revival of the British gangster film, and the urban fairy tale in the late 1990s.
- ISBN10 085170851X
- ISBN13 9780851708515
- Publish Date 1 January 2002 (first published 1 August 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 June 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint BFI Publishing
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 348
- Language English