Books written by Steve Chibnall

The British 'B' Film

Ronald Haines' British Foundation Pictures spent most of the war making informational shorts, but as peace approached, Haines turned his attention to criminal matters. His attempt at making a full-length second feature based on a story ...
Historical Dictionary of British Cinema

MORRIS, OSWALD (1915— ). Cinematographer. Ossie Morris worked his way up through the camera departments of the British film studios of the 1930s. He operated for leading cameramen, such as Ronald Neame, Guy Green, and Wilkie Cooper, ...
J. Lee Thompson

... Ginger 128 Rope 34 Rose Tattoo 173 Rosemary's Baby 310 Ross, Govind Raja 212 Rossi, Alberto 133 Ruggles, Wesley 128 Ruling Class, The 331 Russell, Bertrand 57 Russell, (Lord) John 58 Rutherford, Margaret 123, 124 Ryan, Kathleen 41, ...
Law-and-order News: An Analysis of Crime Reporting in the British Press

Perhaps not surprisingly , this extravagant theory has received very little support from subsequent investigations into Angry Brigade activities ( Carr 1975 ) . But it remains a classic example of the elaboration and , perhaps , the ...
Law-and-order News: An Analysis of Crime Reporting in the British Press

Law-and-order News: An Analysis of Crime Reporting in the British Press
Quota Quickies

Some directors , like Fox's Al Parker , were reluctant to be bound by the tight shooting schedules imposed on quota productions , making frequent alterations to the scenario , as one of his actors , James Mason , recalled : None of us ...
British Horror Cinema

Going beyond Hammer, the book investigates a wealth of horror filmmaking in Britain from early chillers like The Ghoul and Dark Eyes of London to acknowledged classics such as Peeping Tom and The Wicker Man.
British Crime Cinema

Bibliography Armes , R. ( 1978 ) A Critical History of British Cinema , London : Secker & Warburg . Campbell , D. ( 1994 ) The Underworld , London : BBC ... Frazer , F. ( 1995 ) Mad Frank : Memoirs of a Life of Crime , London : Warner .
British Horror Cinema

So is the house really haunted , or is Eleanor just imagining things ? ... Hatch lunatic asylum in Middlesex , England in 1851 , and the contemporaneous banning of mechanical restraints as a means of keeping inmates under control .
The British 'B' Film

He had to be virtually press-ganged onto Sewell's boat from his comfortable suite at the Dorchester Hotel.16 As the British 'B' film reached its terminally decadent phase in 1963, Lawrence Huntington directed American actor Macdonald ...
Quota Quickies

This book, the first of two volumes, will provide a major new history of the British B film, tracing the development of the low-budget supporting feature from the 1927 Films Act (which introduced a quota system for the distribution and ...
J. Lee Thompson

ply their trade in the back-street bazaars of the 'B' movie studios, Lee Thompson's burgeoning talent was given bright showcases in cinema's high street. The movies he was offered may not have been lavish by Hollywood standards, ...
Law-and-Order News: An analysis of crime reporting in the British press

The press have generally been more than willing to accept Parliament's definition of the Irish problem as one of law and order rather than politics because, as the Daily Mail (17.4.74) put it, 'without law and order there can be no ...
British Crime Cinema

This is the first substantial study of British cinema's most neglected genre.
Get Carter: The British Film Guide 6

Relates Get Carter to other crime genre films, profiles the people involved in its making and analyses the film in detail.
British Crime Cinema

(Hodges 1997a) Since it was released early in 1971, Get Carter has progressed from modest commercial success to major cult status—shown uncut in Alex Cox's Moviedrome, cover featured in Crime Time, serialised as a strip cartoon in ...
British Horror Cinema

Also featuring a comprehensive filmography and interviews with key directors Clive Barker and Doug Bradley, this is one resource film studies students should not be without.
British Horror Cinema

Scream and Die 1 97 3 99m col ; pc Blackwater Film; d Joseph Larraz; prod Diana Dauheney; sc Derek Ford; cast Andrea Allan, ... Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter 1974 91m col; pc Hammer; d Brian Clemens; prod Brian Clemens, Albert Fennell; ...
Get Carter: The British Film Guide 6

Before its re-release in 1999, Mike Hodges' fusion of the crime genre with social realism received surprisingly little critical attention. Steve Chibnall's book now gives "Get Carter" the consideration it demands.
Brighton Rock: Turner Classic Movies British Film Guide

Steve Chibnall also uncovers the mystery of missing scenes that, if restored, would give Brighton Rock a significantly different emphasis, and he reveals new information about the films' controversial ending.