© Columbia University Press
Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror
November, 2008
Paper, 144 pages, 12 b&w illus.
ISBN: 978-1-905674-71-8
Wallflower Press
$22.00
"An informative, discursive and wide-ranging survey of home-produced cinema of the Blair and Brown eras." — Time Out London
"A lucidly written and informative overview of recent British cinema that will serve as an excellent introduction to its subject. It ranges widely over what is a complex and heterogeneous terrain (over 400 films are mentioned) and provides a judicious and thoughtful summary of the issues and debates that circulate around British cinema including genre, funding, the politics of representation, nationality and the perennial problem of the cultural value (or not) of the British film industry." — Andrew Spicer, University of the West of England
"This is a comprehensive, detailed survey of British cinema in the Blair era. The scholarship is exemplary, having both range and depth of coverage. Everything is here, from popular genres to art cinema, from independent filmmaking to Lottery-funded cinema. Above all, this book dispels the myth that recent British films have been largely predictable. What emerges is a sense of the complex and contradictory forces at work, and of how this has produced the rich and varied terrain that is contemporary British cinema." — Robert Shail, University of Wales, Lampeter