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A useful second hand bookshop is The Cinema Bookshop in Great Russell Street London - just off Tottenham Court Road and almost opposite the BFI on the other side.

A list of secondhand books on British cinema is available from
Matthew Stevens  
Inkt Collections
29 Bradford Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14 9AN, ENGLAND


http://www.amazon.co.uk/
NB you get the same service through Waterstone's
Waterstone's working with Amazon.co.uk

Amazon also provide second hand books - zShops

Some other online bookstores you probably kmow already-
http://www.blackwell.co.uk/bobuk/scripts/welcome.jsp

and now surprise! even old fuddyduddy Foyles is online
http://foyles.co.uk
This can be found at The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television


JOHN HILL Sex, Class & Realism: British Cinema 1956-63  BFI 1986 (reprinted 1995)

This is a major text for A420. Despite its title it does cover films from The Blue Lamp 1950 through to Alfie 1996

If there is ONE book you intend to buy this is it. Chapter 2 'The Film Industry' is in the Offprints Collection. The quickest and most reliable form of ordering is calling BFI Distributors Plymbridge 01752 202301 and they can deal with everything by phone and will achieve quicker results than a bookshop either real or online.  Anyone phoning should have name of author, title and state clearly it's the paperback issue wanted and then it'll be with you in days

Timothy Corrigan A Short Guide to Writing  about Film 4th edition 2001 Pearson Education

I refer to this very helpful book in Introduction and in Project. Apart from discussing research methods and writng skills it also covers the basics in film studies - auteur and genre theory, and visual analysis (essential for TMA3)

Highly recomended
Juliet Gardiner From the Bomb to the Beatles  
'The changing face of post war Britam 1945-1965'
1999 Collins & Brown

A scrap book for Marwick's Cultural Revolution -
from austerity to affluence and Swinging Sixties
Gives you a real feel for the 'look' of the period

Books on Cultural Revolution and Swinging Sixties

Anthony Aldgate, James Chapman and Arthur Marwick (eds), Windows on the Sixties: Exploring Key Texts of Media and Culture (London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2000)

Christopher Booker The Neophiliacs(1969, 1970)

Robert Hewison,
In Anger: Culture in the Cold War 1945-60, revised edn., Methuen, 1988
Too Much: Art and Society in the Sixties 1960-75, Methuen, 1988

Bernard Levin, Pendulum Years, The Britain and the Sixties, 1972

Bart Moore-Gilbert, and John Seed (eds), Cultural Revolution? The Challenge of the Arts in the 1960s (London & New York: Routledge, 1992)


 

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