PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Charles Barr worked for many years at the University of East Anglia, helping to develop one of the first UK programmes in Film Studies at graduate and undergraduate level. He has since taught in St Louis, Galway and Dublin, and is currently a Research Fellow at St Mary's University, Twickenham. Much of his published work has been on British Cinema, including books on Ealing Studios (1977) and English Hitchcock (1999), and he was co-writer, with director Stephen Frears, of Typically British, part of the centenary history of cinema broadcast on Channel 4 in 1995. He has continued writing on Hitchcock, with a study of Vertigo in the BFI Classics series (new edition, 2012) and Hitchcock: Lost and Found, co-authored with the Parisian scholar Alain Kerzoncuf.
Writing with a graceful style and a quiet wit, Barr has made a valuable contribution to the increasing array of cinematic Very Short Introductions. * David Sterritt, Quarterly Review of Film and Video * It's a long time since I've read such a short book that seems so rich in content and offered so comprehensive and lucid approach to a complex phenomenon. This is a book for any intelligent non-specialist reader with an interest in British film. * Brian McFarlane, On Screen * An entertaining and very informative tour of British film history, starting from the silent days of course, but taking a more productive route than a simple chronological tour. * Pamela Hutchison, Silent London * This short introduction is...a shrewd one... it informs and also inspires. * Graham McCann, Former Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge * Not the least among this small book's many pleasures are its lucid, nuanced prose style and the elegant manner in which thematic threads are teased out and followed through ... it is a sensitive, sensible, and sharply perceptive introduction that will be welcomed by students new to the field, while those who think they know everything about the subject already will find some fresh observations. * Sheldon Hall, Hitchcock Annual *
