All Outputs (7)

The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry, 1960-1980 (2013)
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Spicer, A. H., & McKenna, A. (2013). The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry, 1960-1980. London: I.B. Tauris

This is the first study to focus on the most successful British independent producer of the 1970s, though his career stretched from the early 1980s to the early 1980s. The research for this publication was funded by a two-year AHRC grant and is based... Read More about The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry, 1960-1980.

A Companion to Film Noir (2013)
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Spicer, A. H., & Hanson, H. (2013). A. Spicer, & H. Hanson (Eds.), A Companion to Film Noir. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

This edited collection contains 29 essays specially commissioned for this volume by leading scholars in the field. The volume is organised into 7 parts. Part 1, 'Conceptualising Film Noir', contains four essays that explore the ways in which this cat... Read More about A Companion to Film Noir.

Historical Dictionary of Film Noir (2010)
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Spicer, A. H. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE FULL BOOK TEXT - PUBLISHER POLICY ONLY ALLOWS ACCESS TO AN EXTRACT OF THIS BOOK IN THE UWE BRISTOL RESEARCH REPOSITORY The Dictionary is number 27 in this prestigious series. It will become the most authoritative guide... Read More about Historical Dictionary of Film Noir.

European Film Noir (2006)
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Spicer, A. H. (2006). European Film Noir. Manchester University Press

This chapter appears in a book edited by Spicer who also wrote the introductory essay. This book is the first sustained attempt to dislodge the paradigm of film noir as an exclusively American form, through detailed discussion of the development of f... Read More about European Film Noir.

Sydney Box (2006)
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Spicer, A. H. (2006). Sydney Box. Manchester University Press; Palgrave

Sydney Box was the first study in the British Film Makers series that focussed on a producer rather than a director. The research for this monograph was facilitated by a Research Leave grant from the AHRB/C (2002 - 2003). Spicer was also awarded an A... Read More about Sydney Box.

Film Noir (2002)
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Spicer, A. H. (2002). Film Noir. Longman/Pearson Education

This research monograph is based on the analysis of over 500 films. The book has been reviewed in: Sight and Sound (12/8: August 2002); Audience (May 2003), the Journal of British Cinema and Television (2/2: 2005). It has been cited in studies of fi... Read More about Film Noir.

Typical Men: The Representation of Masculinity in Popular British Cinema (2001)
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Spicer, A. H. (2001). Typical Men: The Representation of Masculinity in Popular British Cinema. I. B. Tauris

Typical Men's investigation of masculinity was conducted through wide-ranging primary research (including viewing over 1,000 films) and an innovative methodology that constructed various 'cultural types' as a way of understanding and mapping the comp... Read More about Typical Men: The Representation of Masculinity in Popular British Cinema.