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Over 39 chapters The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History offers a comprehensive and revisionist overview of British cinema as, on the one hand, a commercial entertainment industry and, on the other, a series of institutions centred on economics, funding and relations to government. Whereas most histories of British cinema focus on directors, stars, genres and themes, this Companion explores the forces enabling and constraining the films' production, distribution, exhibition, and reception contexts from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors provide a wealth of empirical and archive-based scholarship that draws on insider perspectives of key film institutions and illuminates aspects of British film culture that have been neglected or marginalized, such as the watch committee system, the Eady Levy, the rise of the multiplex and film festivals. It also places emphasis on areas where scholarship has either been especially productive and influential, such as in early and silent cinema, or promoted new approaches, such as audience and memory studies.

The Golden Twenties was known to be a period of vibrancy for Berlin which had then became the third largest municipality in the world. Berlin led a sophisticated culture in film, literature, painting, architecture and science. Yet, despite such pros, there emerged a reputation for decadence, for example prostitution and homosexual behaviour. German expressionism had a metaphorical symbolic relationship with the city and the built environment, as Germany began to regain its physical, social and economic structure after the First World War. Its fragmented urban, architectural and spatial character has been depicted as dream-like, chaotic and negatively disordered. On a parallel ideological level, the rapidly changing phenomenon of cities had great influence on artists, poets, writers and filmmakers who found metropolitan street life to be the stage of the magic and chaotic energy then known as city films. This paper highlights the vivid forms of the expressionist city – Berlin's roaring twenties – arising from the alchemy between dark representations and the urban experience. Through a tripartite coalition between Heinrich De Fries's mimesis theory, Michel De Certeau's flâneur and Karl Grune's 1923 expressionist city film Die Straße (The Street), the paper explores the cinematic representation of a once-divided metropolitan city.

Review of: I Chameni Leoforos tou Ellinikou Cinema ('The lost highway of Greek cinema'), Afroditi Nikolaidou and Anna Poupou (2019)
Athens: Nefeli, 232 pp.,
ISBN 978-9-60504-238-7, p/bk, €13

Introduction: Of painters, politicians, and film stars -- Chennai's banner industry: artists and their methods -- Cooperation and conflict in Chennai's visual culture: financiers, artists and their audiences -- Tamil cinema: history, celebrities, genres -- Cine signs: semiotics of Chennai's cinema banners -- Coalescence of Tamil nationalism and the cinema industry -- Political cutout: celebrity and cult in Tamil Nadu -- Darshan and cinematic spectatorship -- Future of Chennai's visual culture

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Personal Acknowledgment by Len Colodny -- A Personal Acknowledgment by Bob Gettlin -- Cast of Characters -- Foreword -- Epigraph -- Book One: Spy Ring -- 1) Spying on the White House -- 2) Carrying the Contraband -- 3) The Admirals Confession -- 4) Nixon Orders a Burial -- 5) The Woodward-Haig Connection -- Book Two: Golden Boy -- 6) The President's Private Eye -- 7) Sandwedge Becomes Gemstone -- 8) The Bailley Connection -- 9) The Last Break-in -- 10) Los Angeles And Manila: The Cover-up Begins -- 11) A Walk in the Park -- 12) "The Smoking Gun" -- 13) Hush Money—For Hunt -- 14) Damage Control Action Officer -- 15) The Pressure Mounts -- 16) Confession Time -- 17) The Cancer within the Presidency -- Book Three: Exit The President -- 18) The Return of Alexander Haig -- 19) Stewart Shakes Up the White House -- 20) Five Days in July -- 21) The Saturday Night Massacre -- 22) The Eighteen-and-a-half-minute Gap -- 23) Moorer-Radford Disinterred -- 24) Senator Stennis Holds a Hearing -- 25) The Real Final Days -- Epilogue: … And Throw Away the Key -- Appendix A: List of Interviewees -- Appendix B: Welander Confessions -- Notes -- 1. SPYING ON THE WHITE HOUSE -- 2. CARRYING THE CONTRABAND -- 3. THE ADMIRAL'S CONFESSION -- 4. NIXON ORDERS A BURIAL -- 5. THE WOODWARD-HAIG CONNECTION -- 6. THE PRESIDENT'S PRIVATE EYE -- 7. SANDWEDGE BECOMES GEMSTONE -- 8. THE BAILLEY CONNECTION -- 9. THE LAST BREAK-IN -- 10. LOS ANGELES AND MANILA: THE COVER-UP BEGINS -- II. A WALK IN THE PARK -- 12. "THE SMOKING GUN" -- 13. HUSH MONEY—FOR HUNT -- 14. DAMAGE CONTROL ACTION OFFICER -- 15. THE PRESSURE MOUNTS -- 16. CONFESSION TIME -- 17. THE CANCER WITHIN THE PRESIDENCY -- 18. THE RETURN OF ALEXANDER HAIG -- 19. STEWART SHAKES UP THE WHITE HOUSE