The New Film History Sources, Methods, Approaches

This book offers cutting edge research and analysis by leading film historians, demonstrating the broad range of approaches, methods and sources that have enlivened the field of film history in recent years.

JAMES CHAPMAN is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. His books include Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (1999), Cinemas of the World: Film and Society from 1895 to the Present (2003) and Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film (2005).

MARK GLANCY is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK, where he teaches courses in American and British film history. His publications include When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood 'British' Film, 1939-45 (1999) and The 39 Steps: A British Film Guide (2003). He is currently completing a book entitled Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain, from the 1920s to the present.

SUE HARPER is a Professor of Film History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the author of Picturing the Past: The Rise and Fall of the British Costume Film (1994), Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (2000) and, with Vincent Porter, British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference (2003). She is the leader of an AHRC research project on 1970s British cinema.