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Product Description: Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial - often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers...read more

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9780199688333 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 2017, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational.

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9781844574988 | 2 reprint edition (British Film Inst, September 4, 2012), cover price $18.95
9780851709185 | British Film Inst, April 26, 2002, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Alfred Hitchcock was one of the very few directors whose reputation often eclipsed that of his stars. Although he achieved his greatest success and fame in Hollywood, he was quintessentially British and the 23 films he made in Britain are very much more than apprentice work...read more

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9780906506134 | Cameron Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Alfred Hitchcock was one of the very few directors whose reputation often eclipsed that of his stars.

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Product Description: This text celebrates 100 years of British film-making with a personal vision from one of the country's most successful directors and a chronicle from an eminent film historian. The book coincides with Frear's program on British cinema which launches a Channel 4 series, A Century of Cinema...read more

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9780851705026 | British Film Inst, March 29, 1997, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This text celebrates 100 years of British film-making with a personal vision from one of the country's most successful directors and a chronicle from an eminent film historian.

Product Description: This text celebrates 100 years of British film-making with a personal vision from one of the country's most successful directors and a chronicle from an eminent film historian. The book coincides with Frear's program on British cinema which launches a Channel 4 series, A Century of Cinema...read more

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9780851705033 | British Film Inst, March 29, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This text celebrates 100 years of British film-making with a personal vision from one of the country's most successful directors and a chronicle from an eminent film historian.

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Product Description: All Our Yesterdays looks at the British film industry from its troubled relations with the state; the links with theater, literature, music hall and broadcasting; to mainstream and independent cinema, genres, directors, stars and individual films...read more

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9780851701790 | British Film Inst, February 26, 1986, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: All Our Yesterdays looks at the British film industry from its troubled relations with the state; the links with theater, literature, music hall and broadcasting; to mainstream and independent cinema, genres, directors, stars and individual films.

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9780961113070, titled "Understanding Synthesizers: A Beginner's Guide to Electronic Music" | Kendal & Preston, June 1, 1985, cover price $4.95

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Product Description: This classic study of British filmmaking, first published in the United States in 1980, has been updated to bring a 1990s perspective to the work of the studio that gave the world such unforgettable comedies as Passport to Pimlico and The Lavender Hill Mob...read more

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9780879511012 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1980, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An account of the great English film studio, the people who ran it, and the films that they made for a quarter of a century contains analyses, 152 stills, and detailed filmographies for all the movies

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9780520215542 | 3 edition (Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1999), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: This classic study of British filmmaking, first published in the United States in 1980, has been updated to bring a 1990s perspective to the work of the studio that gave the world such unforgettable comedies as Passport to Pimlico and The Lavender Hill Mob.
9780879511470 | Overlook Pr, May 1, 1982, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Examines the relationship to the Ealing team of two major directors who worked there, Alexander Mackendrick and Robert Hamer, and places the attitudes and assumptions embodied in its films in the wider context of wartime and post-war Britain as it was and as it saw itself.

Stills and critical commentary capture the genius of this American comedy team

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9780520000858 | Mti edition (Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1968), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Stills and critical commentary capture the genius of this American comedy team

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