British Historical Cinema

Contributors

Stephen Bourne is the author of Black in the British Frame, his award-winning history of black British film and television, recently published in a revised, updated edition (Continuum, 2001), and Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930–71 (Cassell, 1996). He is currently undertaking PhD research on gay representation in British television drama at De Montfort University.

Alan Burton is a Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University. He has published on aspects of British film history in Film History: An International Journal and the Journal of Popular British Cinema, and is co-editor with Tim O’Sullivan and Paul Wells of The Family Way: The Boulting Brothers and British Film Culture (Flicks Books, 2000) and Liberal Directions: Basil Dearden and Post-War British Film Culture (Flicks Books, 1997).

James Chapman is Lecturer in Film and Television History at The Open University. He is author of The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 19391945 (1998), Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (1999) and Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s (2002), all published by I. B. Tauris. He is also co-editor with Anthony Aldgate and Arthur Marwick of Windows on the Sixties: Exploring Key Texts of Media and Culture (I. B. Tauris, 2000), and with Christine Geraghty of Issue 4 of the Journal of Popular British Cinema (2001) on the theme of ‘British Film Culture and Criticism’. He is currently writing a survey history of film and society in the twentieth century for Reaktion Books.

Nicholas J. Cull is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester. He has written widely on issues of film and history, particularly in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. He is the author of Selling War: British Propaganda and American ‘Neutrality’ in World War II (Oxford University Press, 1995).

Fidelma Farley lectures in Film Studies at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Anne Devlin (Flicks Books) and This Other Eden (Cork University Press), and has also published articles on women and Irish cinema, contemporary Northern Irish films, and Scottish and Irish cinema.

Sheldon Hall is a lecturer and former journalist who teaches film studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He has contributed to Studying Film (BFI/WEA, 1990), The Movie Book of the Western (Studio Vista, 1995), Unexplored Hitchcock (Cameron and Holliss, 2000) and The Films of John Carpenter (Flicks Books, 2001). He is currently working on a number of projects developed from his doctoral research on widescreen blockbusters of the 1950s and 1960s.

Jane Kingsley-Smith lectures in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull. She has published work on The Tempest, Shakespeare in Love and Shakespeare’s sources, and is currently researching banishment in Shakespeare’s plays.

Kara McKechnie is a Lecturer in Dramaturgy at the University of Leeds, Bretton Hall campus. She is currently completing her PhD on the work of Alan Bennett at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Claire Monk is a Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University. She has contributed to Sight and Sound since the early 1990s, has written widely on 1980s and 1990s British cinema, including heritage cinema, and is currently completing PhD research on British heritage-film audiences. Her work appears in Journal of Popular British Cinema, Cineaste, Ginette Vincendeau (ed.) Film/ Literature/Heritage: A Sight and Sound Reader (BFI, 2001), Robert Murphy (ed.) British Cinema in the 1990s (BFI, 2000), Justine Ashby and Andrew Higson (eds) British Cinema: Past and Present (Routledge, 2000), Steve Chibnall and Robert Murphy (eds) British Crime Cinema (Routledge, 1999), and Colin MacCabe and Duncan Petrie (eds) New Scholarship from BFI Research (BFI, 1996).

T. Muraleedharan is a Lecturer in the Department of English, St Aloysius College, Elthuruth, affiliated to the University of Calicut, Kerala, Southern India. His chapter in this book draws upon doctoral research on race and gender in the British Raj films of the 1980s. He has also contributed to R. Frankenberg (ed.), Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism (Duke University Press, 1997) and to Ruth Vanita (ed.) Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society (Routledge, forthcoming).

Tim O’Sullivan is Principal Lecturer and Reader in Media Education and Cultural Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, where he is also head of the Department of Media and Cultural Production. His recent publications on British cinema include The Family Way: The Boulting Brothers and British Film Culture (Flicks Books, 2000) and Liberal Directions: Basil Dearden and Post-War British Film Culture (Flicks Books, 1997), both co-edited with Alan Burton and Paul Wells.

James Quinn is a television producer specialising in history and current affairs.

He has published work on both British history and British cinema, and has completed a PhD thesis on the British historical film.

Amy Sargeant is a Lecturer in the History of Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has written extensively on silent cinema and especially screen performance in the silent period. She has contributed to the Journal of Popular British Cinema, the International Journal of Heritage Studies and Film Studies and to Andrew Higson and Justine Ashby (eds) British Cinema: Past and Present (Routledge, 2000). She is currently working on A Critical and Interpretative History of British Cinema, commissioned by the BFI.