Brings a refreshing new perspective to the key debates on British cinema, by using neglected documentary material. Illustrated through a series of case studies such as the fan cultures surrounding stars.

Sarah Street is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Bristol. She is the author of British National Cinema (Routledge 1997).

List of Plates and Documents Acknowledgements 1. The Texts and Methods of Film Histor(ies) 2. Celluloid Diplomacy: British Film and Official Policy 3. 'What a difference a war makes!': Love On the Dole (1941) and British Film Censorship 4. Filippo Del Giudice, Chance of a Lifetime (1950) and British Cinema in the 1940s 5. Document of Fandom: Margaret Lockwood and Ewan McGregor 6. The British Cinema Audience Conclusion Appendix: Major sources for the study of British Cinema Notes Bibliography