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 British Film Institute - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about British Film Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It includes the National Film Archive (founded in 1935) and the National Film Theatre (founded in 1951), and is involved in publishing books and periodicals such as the monthly Sight and Sound.
The BFI provides funding for film distribution and exhibition in Britain, and also releases films on its video label Connoisseur Video.
A library of film books and journals, a stills and posters department, and research facilities are housed at the BFI's headquarters in London.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /British+Film+Institute   (210 words)

  
 British film
Better still, all of the pertinent economic and institutional factors are limned with clarity and precision, from the earliest protectionist legislation through to A bigger picture [Report of UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1998].
In this respect, The encyclopedia of British film can also be read as a kind of statement on behalf of the dominant post-theorists ("The new film historians") of British cinema academe.
However, as any British film historian will tell you, the verities of hegemony are such within world cinema culture that broad favour can never be safely predicted for any cinema artefact stamped as "British".
www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/reviews/rev_16/LEbr16a.html   (851 words)

  
 AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies - Newsletter - Summer 04
Traditional themes such as class and realism, as well as ‘decade’ and genre studies, are still in evidence, amid the larger number of artist monographs and single film essays.
Michael Hammond, ‘Laughter during wartime: comedy and the language of trauma in British cinema regulation 1917’, Screen 44, Summer 2003.
Robert Murphy, Review: The British Working Class in Postwar Film and British Cinema of the 1950s: the Decline of Deference, Screen 45, Winter 2004.
www.bftv.ac.uk /newslet3/spr05p2-3.htm   (1204 words)

  
 screenonline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Check out screenonline's glossary of film and television terms.
The vivacious comedienne of 1950s British cinema whose life was cut short just as her international career began to blossom.
Exploring human nature in all its ambiguity, these fascinating plays contain some of the Bard's most original and probing work.
screenonline.org   (241 words)

  
 BFI (British Film Institute) Publishing - books from this publisher (ISBNs begin with 0-85170)
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Teaching Scriptwriting, Screenplays and Storyboards for Film and TV Production (Teaching Film and Media Studies S.)
Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes (World Film and Television)
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