EMI Films and the Limits of British Cinema

• Main Author: Moody, Paul (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-Great Britain.; Motion pictures.; Motion pictures > Production and direction.; British Cinema and TV.; Film/TV Industry.; Film and TV Production.

This book is the first of its kind to trace the development of one of the largest and most important companies in British cinema history, EMI Films. From 1969 to its eventual demise in 1986, EMI would produce many of the key works of seventies and eighties British cinema, ranging from popular family...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. And Soon the Darkness
• 3. Elstree Falling
• 4. Mr Forbes and the Pen-Pushers
• 5. All the Way Up
• 6. The Likely Lad
• 7. Trick or Treat?
• 8. American Adventure
• 9. Honky-Tonk Filmmaking
• 10. Memoirs of a Survivor
• 11. Conclusion.