Film and Community in Britain and France

Film and Community in Britain and France
Author: Margaret Butler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2004-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857712640

Relations between France and Britain have always been uneasy and ambivelant. But in cinema, WWII changed all that for a time. Although the two countries' wartime fortunes differed, post-war both were busy reintegrating returning servicemen and prisoners of war, and accomodating the changed aspirations of women. Margaret Butler examines these subjects and more in her comparative study of the cinemas of Britain and France during and after the war. Using the concept of continuity, she shows how cinema dealt directly with ideas of belonging and alienation, inclusion and exclusion, unity and division. She also draws on contemporary debates and offers a perceptive reading of key films, to reveal the meaning and appeal of French classics like "Les Enfants du Paradis" and notable British productions like "Waterloo Road".

Group Identities on French and British Television

Group Identities on French and British Television
Author: Michael Scriven
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2003-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800735081

Advances in audiovisual technology, most notably the advent of the popular usage of digital technology in the last few years, have altered the face of popular television. Thanks to cable, satellite and now digital technology, television broadcasts can reach an international audience. The reaction from cultural critics has been mixed. As the debate concerning the effects of new telecommunications and audiovisual technology continues unabated, this book examines the underlying hypothesis that collective allegiances are moving away from the national paradigm towards the global/local model and provides a balanced appraisal of the depiction of a select number of group identities on television in Britain and France.

Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain

Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain
Author: Michael Scriven
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1999
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781571819468

This is the first study devoted to the highly significant roles played by France and Britain in the formulation of European audiovisual policy, providing a truly comparative analysis of the contemporary audiovisual scene in the two countries.

The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960

The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960
Author: C. G. Crisp
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 522
Release: 1993
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 9780253315502

Colin Crisp re-evaluates the stylistic evolution of the classic French cinema, and represents the New Wave film-makers as its natural heirs rather than the mould-breakers they perceived themselves to be.

France on Film

France on Film
Author: Lucy Mazdon
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2001
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781903364086

This collection of new essays is a comprehensive introduction to the concerns and styles which characterise contemporary popular French film.

Hollywood Exiles in Europe

Hollywood Exiles in Europe
Author: Rebecca Prime
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0813562635

Rebecca Prime documents the untold story of the American directors, screenwriters, and actors who exiled themselves to Europe as a result of the Hollywood blacklist. During the 1950s and 1960s, these Hollywood émigrés directed, wrote, or starred in almost one hundred European productions, their contributions ranging from crime film masterpieces like Du rififi chez les hommes (1955, Jules Dassin, director) to international blockbusters like The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, screenwriters) and acclaimed art films like The Servant (1963, Joseph Losey, director). At once a lively portrait of a lesser-known American “lost generation” and an examination of an important transitional moment in European cinema, the book offers a compelling argument for the significance of the blacklisted émigrés to our understanding of postwar American and European cinema and Cold War relations. Prime provides detailed accounts of the production and reception of their European films that clarify the ambivalence with which Hollywood was regarded within postwar European culture. Drawing upon extensive archival research, including previously classified material, Hollywood Exiles in Europe suggests the need to rethink our understanding of the Hollywood blacklist as a purely domestic phenomenon. By shedding new light on European cinema’s changing relationship with Hollywood, the book illuminates the postwar shift from national to transnational cinema.

Food Contact Polymeric Materials

Food Contact Polymeric Materials
Author: J.A. Sidwell
Publisher: iSmithers Rapra Publishing
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1992
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780902348691

Polymeric materials have revolutionised the way we package store and even cook our food. We now buy soft and alcoholic drinks in transparent, lightc099 plastic bottles, and precooked meals in plastic trays which we reheat in a microwave or conventional oven. This state-of-the-art review draws together the legal framework within which the industry must work, with the technological advances being made both in materials performance and the analysis of migrating monomers and additives. An additional indexed section containing several hundred abstracts from the Rapra Polymer Library database provides useful references for further reading.

Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975

Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975
Author: Anthony Adamthwaite
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1441129170

Britain, France and Europe, 1945-1975 takes a fresh look at the international trajectories of Europe's premier democracies. The side-lining of Britain and France in the Cold War era, argues Adamthwaite, was preventable. A Franco-British Europe came within a whisker of realization. Condemning President Charles de Gaulle as an intransigent gatekeeper created a convenient alibi for self-inflicted missteps. UK bids for European Community membership ignored the elephant in the room - the need for partnership in a superpower age. A marriage powering the Community could have repositioned Western Europe as partner, not client of the United States. Although perceived as a failing power, France outperformed Britain - seizing the initiative in European construction, and winning primacy in western Europe. As well as exploring sharply contrasting national experiences in the aftermath of war, the author analyses the reasons for French success. The analysis evaluates key influences: the mental maps of decision makers; leadership styles; the post-1945 international system; policy making machinery; the 'democratic deficit' in British and French politics; and public opinion. Drawing on American, British and French official records, together with private papers and interviews, this enlightening study highlights the importance of contingency and individual actors, and will be of great interest to scholars of modern European history.

British Qualifications

British Qualifications
Author: Kogan Page
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 1004
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780749441371

In a single volume, the new edition of this guide gives comprehensive coverage of the developments within the fast-changing field of professional, academic and vocational qualifications. career fields, their professional and accrediting bodies, levels of membership and qualifications, and is a one-stop guide for careers advisors, students and parents. It should also enable human resource managers to verify the qualifications of potential employees.

British Qualifications

British Qualifications
Author: Kogan Page
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 1080
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780749444846

The field of professional, academic and vocational qualifications is ever-changing. The new edition of this highly successful and practical guide provides thorough information on all developments. Fully indexed, it includes details on all university awards and over 200 career fields, their professional and accrediting bodies, levels of membership and qualifications.It acts as an one-stop guide for careers advisors, students and parents, and will also enable human resource managers to verify the qualifications of potential employees.