British Film Institute

Connections

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Fictionalization Anne Lister
It was in connection with her immediate or recent reputation that AL was allegedly fictionalised both in Brontë 's Shirley and Rosa Kettle 's The Mistress of Langdale Hall, 1872.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Scholars like Violet Ingham
Occupation Muriel Box
The first film she directed was The English Inn, 1941, described on the British Film Institute website as a typical Verity propaganda short produced for the British Council .
Spicer, Andrew. “Box, Muriel (1905-1991)”. British Film Institute (bfi): screenonline.
After this came a setback....
Performance of text Sarah Waters
She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She...
Publishing Marina Warner
MW published L'Atalante, a book commissioned by the British Film Institute on the 1934 classic film of the same name directed by Jean Vigo .
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research.
194: 279, 286
Reception Muriel Box
The BFI calls MB 's visual style competent and unfussy, geared to foregrounding the performers' dialogue and body language. It finds something stage-bound, however, in her rarely using locations away from the studio...
Reception Jean Binta Breeze
Stylistically, this meant the replacement of a predominantly dub style with a more experimental format, one willing to embrace new and unusual rhythmic qualities. The work also led the British Film Institute and Channel 4
Reception Marina Warner
Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...
Textual Production Marina Warner
The book is one of the BFI Film Classics Series, commissioned by the National Film and Television Archive , a division of the British Film Institute . Series editor Edward Buscombe comments that these...

Timeline

22 June 1925: The Film Society was incorporated in London,...

Building item

22 June 1925

The Film Society was incorporated in London, where it operated until 1939.

Texts

Warner, Marina. L’Atalante. British Film Institute, 1993.