Britton was also a joint contributor to The American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film (1979) and the editor of Talking Films (1991). In 1989–90, he was involved in program research at the National Film Theatre in London, and in 1991, he was editor of the official program of the London Film Festival. Britton was a member of the editorial boards of the film magazines Framework and Movie and of the editorial collective of the Canadian magazine CineAction. He was also a guest lecturer at other universities in Britain, Canada, and the United States, including a term as a visiting professor at Queens University, Ontario, Canada in 1983. Britton’s career as a lecturer in Film Studies began at the same university in 1978, and he went on to teach at Essex University (1979–85), Trent University, Ontario, Canada (1985–88), York University, Ontario, Canada (1988–89), and Reading University, England (1992–93).
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To Art Efron, a mentor who taught me so much about criticism, and Robin Wood, who first showed me how to be a critic of cinemaĪndrew Britton was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in the United Kingdom in April 1952. He graduated in 1974 with a first-class degree in English and American Literature from King’s College, London, and went on to study as a postgraduate at the University of Warwick with noted film critic Robin Wood. (Contemporary approaches to film and television series) Includes bibliographical references and index.
Britton on film : the complete film criticism of Andrew Britton / edited by Barry Keith Grant with an introduction by Robin Wood. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Britton, Andrew, 1952–1994. Manufactured in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permission. © 2009 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew BrittonĮdited by Barry Keith Grant with an Introduction by Robin Wood Feng University of Delaware Lisa Parks University of California–Santa Barbara Jeffrey Sconce Northwestern University Burgoyne Wayne State University Tom Gunning University of Chicago Anna McCarthy New York University Peter X.
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Students and teachers of film studies as well as general readers interested in film and American popular culture will enjoy Britton on Film.Ĭontemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series A complete listing of the books in this series can be found online at General Editorīarry Keith Grant Brock University Advisory Editors In addition, Britton's critiques of the ideology of Screen and Wisconsin formalism display his uncommon grasp of theory even when arguing against prevailing critical trends.Īn introduction by influential film critic Robin Wood, who was also Britton's teacher and friend, begins this landmark collection. Included are such well-known and important pieces as "Blissing Out: The Politics of Reaganite Entertainment" and "Sideshows: Hollywood in Vietnam," among the most perceptive discussions of these two periods of Hollywood history yet published. In all, twenty-eight essays consider such varied films as Hitchcock's Spellbound, Jaws, The Exorcist, and Mandingo and topics as diverse as formalism, camp, psychoanalysis, imperialism, and feminism.
The essays are arranged by theme: Hollywood cinema, Hollywood movies, European cinema, and film and cultural theory. Renowned film scholar and editor Barry Keith Grant has assembled all of Britton's published essays of film criticism and theory for this volume, spanning the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Louis, Spellbound, and Now, Voyager and of key European filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Jean-Luc Godard, and Bernardo Bertolucci. Britton on Film demonstrates that Britton's humanism is also his strength, as it presents all of his published writings together for the first time, including Britton's persuasive readings of such important Hollywood films as Meet Me in St. Though Britton's writings are extraordinary in their depth and range and are closely attuned to the nuances of the texts they examine, his humanistic approach was at odds with typical theory-based film scholarship. For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of undeniably brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles.
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