Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror

James Leggott

November, 2008
Paper, 144 pages, 12 b&w illus.
ISBN: 978-1-905674-71-8
Wallflower Press
$22.00

This volume offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of British film culture from 1997 to the present. Using a wide range of films from the Blair era and beyond as case studies—from from Notting Hill (1999) and Billy Elliot (2000) to 28 Days Later (2002) and The Queen (2006)—it examines the ways in which recent British filmmaking might be regarded as distinctive, relevant and successful.

Related Subjects

• Film

Series

• Short Cuts (Wallflower Press)

About the Author

James Leggott is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University. He has published on various aspects of British film and television culture, and is a contributor to The Trouble With Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema (2004).

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