Charles Urban by Luke Mckernan
Based on original research from Charles Urban's own papers, this is the first biography of this influential film maker and innovator. A historical study of the development of the non-fiction film in Britain and America in the early years of cinema. Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award 2014. 24 b&w illus. First time in paperback.-
The Great Art Of Light And Shadow
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Alternative Film Culture in Interwar Britain
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The Holocaust and Hollywood Studios
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Finding Birt Acres
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Going to the Movies
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Reading the Cinematograph
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The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema
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Silent Features
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Picturegoers
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Screening Europe in Australasia
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The World According To Hollywood,1918-1939
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Young And Innocent?
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Multimedia Histories
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British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years
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Hollywood, Westerns And The 1930S
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The Lost Jungle
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Marketing Modernity
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The Appreciation of Film
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Celluloid War Memorials
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Decoding the Movies
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Bill Douglas
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Film, Cinema, Genre
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Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain
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The Big Show
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John Hamrick’s Blue Mouse Cinemas
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Cecil Hepworth and the Rise of the British Film Industry 1899-1911
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The Screen Censorship Companion
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A Chorus Of Raspberries
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Legitimate Cinema
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'Film Europe' and 'Film America'
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Cinema on the Front Line
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Parallel Tracks
Reviews of the hardback edition:
‘Luke McKernan’s fascinating new book…’
‘Luke McKernan has written a scholarly, important book on a little-known pioneer in the early documentary movementIt deserves to be widely read.’(History Today, January 2014)
'It has taken Urban’s champion the better part of a century to arrive. The wait would seem to have been worth it. . . . McKernan shows himself to be a diligent and impartial scholar. . . . [Urban’s ] accomplishments and his philosophy have found an excellent channel in McKernan.' (Eric J. Iannelli, Times Literary Supplement, November 8, 2013)
‘This is a fine and much needed book, and deserves to have a wide readership. It tells the story of Charles Urban, an important pioneer of both non-fiction and colour films, and also has much to say about the silent cinema and documentary film in general.'
‘McKernan steers us through with a sure hand, writing concisely and engagingly'
‘Exeter have done their usual quality job, so this is built to last. Undoubtedly, the volume deserves to be on the shelves of every cinémathèque and research library in the world.’ (Stephen Bottomore, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 34.2, 2014)
Luke McKernan is a film historian and Lead Curator of Moving Image at the British Library. He has written widely on early film for a number of academic journals and also curates a web resource on Charles Urban at www.charlesurban.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9780859898829 |
| ISBN 10 | 0859898822 |
| Title | Charles Urban |
| Author | Luke Mckernan |
| Series | Exeter Studies In Film History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Exeter |
| Year published | 2013-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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