Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has been influential in the technological, commercial, and artistic development of cinema. Despite a history of successful productions, the industry is characterised by an ongoing debate about its identity (including economic and cultural issues) and the influences of American and European cinema.

Bibliography

Pre-WWII

• Low, Rachel. 1985. Film Making in 1930s Britain. London: George, Allen and Unwin
• Rotha, Paul. 1973. Documentary diary; an informal history of the British documentary film, 1928-1939, New York: Hill and Wang
• Swann, Paul. 2003. The British Documentary Film Movement, 1926-1946. Cambridge University Press

World War II

• Aldgate, Anthony and Richards, Jeffrey 2nd Edition. 1994. Britain Can Take it: British Cinema in the Second World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
• Barr, Charles; Ed. 1986. All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema. London: British Film Institute
• Murphy, Robert. 2000. British Cinema and the Second World War. London: Continuum

Post-War

• Friedman, Lester; Ed. 1992. British Cinema and Thatcherism. London: UCL Press
• Geraghty, Christine. 2000. British Cinema in the Fifties: Gender Genre and the New Look. London Routledge
• Gillett, Philip. 2003. The British Working Class in Postwar Film. Manchester: Manchester University Press
• Murphy, Robert; Ed. 1996. Sixties British Cinema. London: BFI
• Shaw, Tony. 2001. British Cinema and the Cold War. London: I.B. Tauris

1990s

• Brown, Geoff. 2000. Something for Everyone: British film Culture in the 1990s.
• Brunsdon, Charlotte. 2000. Not Having It All: Women and Film in the 1990s.
• Murphy, Robert; Ed. 2000. British Cinema of the 90s. London: BFI

Cinema and Government

• Dickinson, Margaret and Street, Sarah. 1985. Cinema and the State: The Film industry and the British Government, 1927-84. London: BFI
• Miller, Toby. 2000. 'The Film Industry and the Government: 'Endless Mr Beans and Mr Bonds'?'
• Moran, Albert; Ed. 1996. Film Policy: International, National and Regional Perspectives. London: Routledge: ISBN 0-415-09791-6

General

• Aldgate, Anthony and Richards Jeffrey. 2002. Best of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present. London: I.B. Taurus
• Babington, Bruce; Ed. 2001.British Stars and Stardom. Manchester: Manchester University Press
• Chibnall, Steve and Murphy, Robert; Eds. 1999. British Crime Cinema. London: Routledge
• Cook, Pam. 1996. Fashioning the Nation: Costume and Identity in British Cinema. London BFI
• Curran, James and Porter, Vincent; Eds. 1983. British Cinema History. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson
• Durgnat, Raymond. 1970. A Mirror for England: British Movies from Austerity to Affluence. London: Faber. ISBN: 0-571095-038
• Harper, Sue. 2000. Women in British Cinema: Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know. London: Continuum
• Higson, Andrew. 1995. Waving the Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Higson, Andrew. 2003. English Heritage, English Cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Hill, John. 1986. Sex, Class and Realism. London: BFI
• Landy, Marcia. 1991. British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930-1960. Princeton University Press
• Lay, Samantha. 2002. British Social Realism. London: Wallflower
• McFarlane, Brian. The Encyclopedia of British Film. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-77301-9
• Monk, Claire and Sargeant, Amy. 2002. British Historical Cinema. London Routledge
• Murphy, Robert; Ed. 2001. British Cinema Book 2nd Edition. London: BFI
• Perry, George. 1988. The Great British Picture Show. Little Brown, 1988.
• Street, Sarah. 1997. British National Cinema. London: Routledge.
• Tasker, Yvonne; Ed. 2002. Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers: Routledge: London: ISBN 0-415-18974-8