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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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