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[ecrea] Projecting Britain. The Guide to British Cinemagazines

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Projecting Britain. The Guide to British Cinemagazines

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Projecting Britain
The Guide to British Cinemagazines

Edited by Emily Crosby & Linda Kaye

Projecting Britain explores a film genre neglected for decades: the cinemagazine. Watched by millions, both in Britain and abroad, these fascinating ?screen magazines? reflected all aspects of popular culture from fashions and fads, to football and factories. This volume spans the history of the cinemagazine from the first known example, Kinemacolor Fashion Gazette released in 1913, through Mining Review and Look at Life to those still produced today, such as Prisons Video Magazine. A remarkably pervasive and popular form of screen entertainment, cinemagazines reveal a fascinating visual document of Britain in the twentieth century.

This is a new and hugely welcome contribution to the field. It takes a previously neglected genre, arouses our interest, and brings it to clear scholarly light - while at the same time serving as an eminently practical guide. As such, it will be of immense value not only to film study but also to social historical research

Dr Richard Howells, Director, Center for Cultural, Media and Creative Industries Research, King?s College, London.

Projecting Britain writes the cinemagazine back into history through
* A comprehensive directory of 130 cinemagazine series from 1913 to the present day * Six articles which examine the cinemagazine as the 'colour supplement' of the cinema programme, a public relations tool and purveyor of propaganda * Original texts including correspondence, memos and extracts from books and journals * A resource section, including a list of archive holdings and descriptive bibliography

Research funded by the <http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/>Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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