This site contains information from a module that I taught 1999-2002 and does not get updated. Hopefully some of the links remain useful

Visual Images: Bibliography

The main focus of this module will be on various visual images from different periods and genres. To support this, the following items will be of use. This selection includes general and theoretical materials, as well as reading specifically linked to the examples tutors will be using (for example, Nazi materials for the session on propaganda films, British cinema history for the section on feature films).

In addition to the KAC Library, you are advised to use materials from the public library service. You also have reading rights (but not borrowing rights) at the Winchester School of Art Library in Park Avenue.

Aldgate, A., Britain Can Take It: the British cinema and the Second World War (1986)

Aldgate, A., Censorship and the Permissive Society: British cinema and theatre, 1955-1965 (1995)

Barr, C., ed., All Our Yesterdays: 90 years of British cinema (1986)

Barthes, R., Camera Lucida: reflections on photography (1993)

Baxendale, J. and Pawling, C., Narrating the Thirties: a decade in the making, 1930 to the present (1996)

Beaton, C., The Magic Image: the genius of photography from 1839 to the present day (1975)

Betts, E., The Film Business: a history of British cinema, 1896-1972 (1973)

Bolton, R., ed., The Contest of meaning: critical histories of photography (1989)

Bond, R., ‘Cinema in the Thirties: documentary film and the labour movement’, in Clark, J., Heinemann, M., Margolies, D. and Snee, C., eds, Culture and Crisis in Britain in the 30s (1979)

Braive, M., The Era of the Photograph: a social history (1965)

Bramstead, E., Goebbels and National Socialist Propaganda 1922-45 (1965)

Briggs, A., Burke, P., Smith, D., Richards, J. and Yeo, S., ‘What is the History of Popular Culture?’, in Gardiner, J., ed., What is History Today? (1988)

Chanan, M., The dream that kicks: the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain, (1996)

Chapman, J., The British at War: cinema, state and propaganda, 1939-1945 (1998)

Curran, J. and Porter, V., eds, British Cinema History (1983)

Dodd, K. and Dodd, P., ‘From the East End to EastEnders: representations of the working class, 1890-1990’, in Strinati, D. and Wagg, S., eds, Come on Down? Popular media culture in post-war Britain (1992)

Drazin, C., The Finest Years: British cinema of the 1940s (1998)

Freund, G., Photography and Society (1980)

Friedman, L., ed., British Cinema and Thatcherism: fires were started (1993)

Gernsheim, H. The History of Photography from the Camera Obscura to the Beginning of the Modern Era (revised edition, 1969)

Gledhill, C. and Swanson, G., eds, Nationalising Femininity: culture, sexuality, and British cinema in the Second World War (1996)

Gow, J., Paterson, R. & Preston, A. Bosnia by Television (1996)

Greenough, S., et al, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: one hundred and fifty years of photography (1989)

Heron, L. and Williams, V. eds, Illuminations: women writing on photography from the 1850s to the present (1996)

Higson, A., ed., Dissolving Views: key writings on British cinema (1996)

Hill, J., Sex, Class and Realism: British cinema 1956-1963 (1986)

Hinz, B., Art in the Third Reich (1974)

Hogenkamp, B., ‘"Making films with a purpose": film-making and the working class’, in Clark, J., Heinemann, M., Margolies, D. and Snee, C., eds, Culture and Crisis in Britain in the 30s (1979)

Jones, S., The British Labour Movement and Film, 1918-1939 (1987)

Kirkup, G., ‘The family album: past, present and absent’, in Drake, M. and Finnegan, R., eds, Sources and Methods for Family and Community Historians: a handbook (1994)

Kracauer, S., From Caligari to Hitler: a psychological study of the German film (1947)

Kuhn, A., Cinema, Censorship, and Sexuality, 1909-1925 (1988)

Landy, M., British Genres: cinema and society, 1930-1960 (1991)

Lassam, R., Fox Talbot, Photographer (1979)

Leiser, E., Nazi Cinema (1974)

Metz, C., Film Language: a semiotics of the cinema (1974)

Mico, T., Miller-Monzon, J., Rubel, D. (eds) Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (1996)

Miles, P. and Smith, JM., Cinema, Literature and Society: elite and mass culture in interwar Britain (1987)

Monaca, J., How to Read a Film: the art, technology, language, history and theory of film and media (revised edition, 1990)

Murphy, R., Realism and Tinsel: cinema and society in Britain, 1939-1949 (1989)

--, Sixties British Cinema (1992)

Newhall, B., The History of Photography: from 1839 to the Present (revised edition, 1982)

Philips, M., ‘The German film industry and the New Order’, in Stachura, P., ed., The Shaping of the Nazi State (1978)

Pols, R., Dating Old Photographs (1992)

Pronay, N. and Spring, D.W., eds, Propaganda, Politics and Film 1918-1945 (1982)

Rayan, J.R., Picturing Empire: photography and visualization of the British Empire (1997)

Rees, L., Selling Politics (1992)

Rentschler, E., The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi cinema and its afterlife (1996)

Richards, J., ‘The cinema and cinema-going in Birmingham in the 1930s’, in Walton, J., and Walvin, J., eds, Leisure in Britain 1780-1939 (1983)

--, The Age of the Dream Palaces: cinema and society in Britain 1930-1939 (1984)

--, ‘Modernism and the people: the view from the cinema stalls’, in Williams, K. and Matthews, S., eds, Rewriting the Thirties: modernism and after (1997)

--, ed., The Unknown 1930s: an alternative history of the British cinema, 1929-1939 (1997)
Richards, J. and Aldgate, A., British Cinema and Society, 1930-1970 (1983)

--, Best of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present (1999)

Richards, J. and Sheridan, D., eds, Mass-Observation at the Movies (1987)

Riefenstahl, L. The Sieve of Time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl (1992)
Roberts, J. The Art of Interruption: realism, photography and the everyday (1998)

Robertson, J., The Hidden Cinema: British film censorship in action, 1913-1975 (1989)

Rotha, P., The Film till Now: A survey of world cinema (revised edition, 1967)

Shafer, S., British Popular Films 1929-1939: the cinema of reassurance (1997)

Short, K.R., ed., Feature Films as History (1981)

Sklar, R. and Musser, C., eds, Resisting Images: essays on cinema and history (1990)

Smith, L. The Politics of Focus: women, children and nineteenth-century photography (1998)

Smith, P. ed., The Historian and Film (1976)

Solomon-Godeau, A., Photography at the Dock: essays on photographic history, institution and practices (1995)

Sontag, S., On Photography, (1977)
Sorlin, P., Film and History: restaging the past (1980)

Spence, J. and Holland, P., eds, Family Snaps: the meaning of domestic photography (1991)

Stange, M., Symbols of Ideal Life: social documentary photography in America 1890-1950 (1989)

Stead, P., Film and the Working Class: the feature film in British and American society (1989)

Taylor, J., A Dream of England: landscape, photography and the tourist’s imagination (1994)

--., War photography: realism in the British press (1991)

--, Body horror: photojournalism, catastrophe and war (1998)

Taylor, R., Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany (1979)

Victoria and Albert Museum, Photography, an Independent Art: photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1839-1996 (1997)

Walker, A., National Heroes: British cinema in the seventies and eighties (1985)

Welch, D., Propaganda and the German Cinema 1933-1945 (1983)

Wells, L., ed., Photography: a critical introduction (1997)

White, B., Jemima, S. and Hyslop, D., Dream Palaces: going to the pictures in Southampton (1996)

Williams, C., ed., Realism and the Cinema: a reader (1980)

Winston, B., Technologies of Seeing: photography, cinematography and television (1996)

Winter, G., A Country Camera 1844-1914 (1966)

Wollen, P., Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (revised edition, 1998)

Zeman, Z., Nazi Propaganda (1973)

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