The History of World CinemaDavid Robinson, Stein and Day, 1973, The Haunted ScreenLotte Eisner, Le Terrain Vague, 1952. New mezzanine floors were constructed and book stacks rebuilt in an attempt to cope with the flood of books. The Technique of Film EditingKarel Reisz and Gavin Millar. Conceivably more ideas per page can be found here than in the work of any other English-language critic, and Durgnat’s grounding in surrealism and the school of Positif is merely one of the starting points for an exploratory critical intelligence that is nonetheless quintessentially English. An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937Zhang Zhen, University of Chicago Press, 2006. The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857. In the collection is a large war canoe from the island of Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands, one of the last ever to be built in the archipelago. Rescues, with painterly intelligence, a defunct form. The number of Phoenician inscriptions from sites across Cyprus is also considerable, and include artefacts found at the Kition necropolis (with the two Kition Tariffs having the longest Phoenician inscription discovered on the island), the Idalion temple site and two bilingual pedestals found at Tamassos. Thirteen years on, many of the 180 interviewees have died. The former director of the museum has stated, "We are indebted to Elgin for having rescued the Parthenon sculptures and others from the Acropolis from the destruction they were suffering, as well as from the damage that the Acropolis monuments, including the sculptures that he did not remove, have suffered since. The Sainsbury African Galleries display 600 objects from the greatest permanent collection of African arts and culture in the world. The most sophisticated marriage of philosophy and film written. Surely one of the greatest books about a national cinema ever written? The Pleasure DomeGraham Greene, Secker & Warburg, 1972. There are plans in place to develop permanent galleries for showcasing art from Oceania and South America. Altogether the British Museum showcases on public display less than 1%[60] of its entire collection, approximately 50,000 items. The Ancient Near Eastern collection also had its beginnings in 1825 with the purchase of Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities from the widow of Claudius James Rich. 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I’m sure some future scholar will produce an admirable thesis comparing the changes in – and evolution of – what has come to be, along with everything else, a vicarious and incremental autobiography. The great American novelist turned his attention to a Hollywood he knew well for this collection of short stories about a washed-up screenwriter, which retain their relevance and punch to this day. On the other hand, it is also a self-portrait by a brilliant and uncompromising English film-maker. Phoenician antiquities come from across the region, but the Tharros collection from Sardinia and the large number of Phoenician stelae from Carthage and Maghrawa are outstanding. Bronze lamp and patera from the X-group tombs, A surviving column and architectural fittings, (420–415 BC), Head from the statue of Nemesis, (430-420 BC), Fluted columns, column bases and ionic capitals, (399–301 BC), Two colossal free-standing figures identified as Maussollos and his wife, One of the sculptured column bases, (340–320 BC), Segments of the columns and architraves from the, Gold jewellery and other rich artefacts from the Castellani and Galeassi Tombs in, Various objects including two small terracotta statues from the "Tomb of the five chairs" in Cerveteri (625–600 BC), Painted terracotta plaques (the so-called, Decorated silver panels from Castel San Marino, near, Statuette of a bronze votive figure from Pizzidimonte, near, Bronze helmet with inscription commemorating the, Large terracotta sarcophagus and lid with painted scenes from, Bronze sculpture of a Greek poet known as the, Pair of carved fluorite cups known as the, A hoard of silver votive plaques dedicated to the Roman God, Part of a large wooden wheel for draining a copper mine in, Hoard of jewellery from a tomb in the vicinity of, Inscribed marble base of the Roman Consul, The Sharrat-Niphi Temple, (c. 9th century BC), South-East Palace ('Burnt Palace'), (8th–7th century BC), Human Headed Lamassu Bull, sister piece in, Human Headed Lamassu Lion, sister piece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (883–859 BC), Rare Head of Human Headed 'Lamassu', recovered from the North-West Palace, (811–783 BC), Pair of statues of attendant god dedicated to, Large sculpture of a male bearded head from a, Pair of inscribed stone objects known as the, Group of 16 stone reliefs from the palace of King, Seated statue of Kidudu or guardian spirit from the Assyrian city of, Group of 4 bronze shields with inscription of king, One of the pottery storage jars containing the, Representative sample of artefacts (sherds, vessels, etc) from the megalithic site of, Eight bronze shields including those from, Gold bowl with embossed ornament and fluted wire, Morel collection of La Tène material from eastern France, including the, Elaborate gold bracelets and ring found near, Three Viking hoards from Norway known as the, A number of luxurious penannular brooches such as the, A number of mediaeval ivory panels including the, Set of 10 wooden door panels engraved with, Magnificent cups made from precious metal such as the, Two luxurious silver brooches set with precious stones from, Oak clock with mother-of-pearl engraving designed by, The most comprehensive collection of sculpture from the Indian subcontinent in the world, including the celebrated, An outstanding collection of Chinese antiquities, paintings, and porcelain, lacquer, bronze, jade, and other applied arts, Intricately designed gold dagger handle from, A fine assemblage of Buddhist scroll paintings from, Ivory stand in the form of a seated lion, Chos-'khor-yan-rtse monastery in, Hoard of gold jewellery with precious stones found under the Enlightenment Throne at the, Three sandstone carved sculptures of the Buddha in, Earliest known figure of the dancing four-armed god, Several wooden architectural panels from the, Hoard of Buddhist terracotta sealings from the, Foundation inscription with Arabic inscription in, Large standing gilded copper figure of the, Pottery vessels and sherds from the ancient site of, Three stone Buddha heads from the temple at, Stone figure representing the upper part of an eleven-headed, Glazed terracotta tiles from the Shwegugyi Temple erected by king, Large impression of the Buddha's foot made of gilded stone (known as Shwesettaw Footprints) donated by Captain. Hand-picked. Tarkovsky is my all-time favourite director. Thank you for your patience and apologies for any inconvenience. You no longer need to book a time slot to use our libraries. The Invention of MorelAdolfo Bioy Casares, Editorial Losada, 1940. Although it was not fully open to the general public until 1857, special openings were arranged during The Great Exhibition of 1851. [44], As part of its very large website, the museum has the largest online database of objects in the collection of any museum in the world, with 2,000,000 individual object entries, 650,000 of them illustrated, online at the start of 2012. By 1959 the Coins and Medals office suite, completely destroyed during the war, was rebuilt and re-opened, attention turned towards the gallery work with new tastes in design leading to the remodelling of Robert Smirke's Classical and Near Eastern galleries. Sturges’ autobiography is as well written, droll and well observed as his best films. The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is a covered square at the centre of the British Museum designed by the engineers Buro Happold and the architects Foster and Partners. The book that every young film snob carried around or even memorised in the early 70s – just in case you might catch a rare Edgar Ulmer B movie in a rep cinema (yes, that’s how we saw films maudits in those days). The Bodleian Old Library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. Tauris, 2001. Like Powell, Boorman can write like a dream as well as direct films like Point Blank and Deliverance “in a state of grace”, and this wise, intensely sympathetic, informative, amusing, moving account of his globe-spanning trajectory from Carshalton via L.A. to Galway is a classic. [37] In 1923, the British Museum welcomed over one million visitors. Readers who are able to connect to Oxford Wireless LAN (OWL) via VPN are recommended to use it. It seems symptomatic that the book has never been translated into English – neither has the film writing of the Italian Marxist Umberto Barbaro (which I read in the translation published in Cuba by the ICAIC). Of particular interest to curators was the eventual discovery of Ashurbanipal's great library of cuneiform tablets, which helped to make the museum a focus for Assyrian studies.[30]. [123], Forgotten Empire Exhibition (October 2005 – January 2006), The old Elgin Gallery was painted a deep terracotta red, which, though in some ways satisfactory, diminished its apparent size, and was apt to produce a depressing effect on the visitor. There’s no shortage of novels deserving of a place on the shelf, including Shoot! The Greek objects originate from across the Ancient Greek world, from the mainland of Greece and the Aegean Islands, to neighbouring lands in Asia Minor and Egypt in the eastern Mediterranean and as far as the western lands of Magna Graecia that include Sicily and southern Italy. The oldest dated printed text known: The Diamond Sutra, a Chinese translation of a Buddhist text now preserved in the British Library. At once imaginative myth-making and insightful, demystifying critical essay. These are the books that I’ve lived with the longest (excepting Farber On Film), so I suppose they’re the ones that have had the most profound effect on me. King Cohn: The Life and Times of Harry CohnBob Thomas, Putnam, 1967, A deliciously gossipy biography of Harry Cohn, the feared and reviled head of Columbia Pictures. Objects from the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory are mostly found on the upper floor of the museum, with a suite of galleries numbered from 38 to 51. The World ViewedStanley Cavell, Viking, 1971. This volume has already become a milestone in film criticism, and it isn’t hard to see why. In recent decades there has been no more cogent a rethinking of the physical and psychological experience of film as it evolved, both as a technology and as an artform. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Out of the Past: Spanish Cinema After FrancoJohn Hopewell, BFI, 1986. The best biography of a film-maker I’ve ever read. The great eleven volume Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum compiled between 1870 and 1954 is the definitive reference work for the study of British Satirical prints. An exhaustive and fascinating account of how the Japanese film industry was mobilised during the war years. But the whole sweep of Russian cinema up to the years just after Stalin’s death are vividly chronicled by Leyda. Back in 1969 when it was first published, it was, like Martin Peters, ten years ahead of its time. We consider these approaches preferable to the common and-then-and-then histories, as these are usually too industry-development-keyed – i.e. The collection was augmented in 1983 by the Godman bequest of Iznik, Hispano-Moresque and early Iranian pottery. A one-man tour de force that cements the case for the auteur theory. Archeological excavation of prehistoric material took off and expanded considerably in the twentieth century and the department now has literally millions of objects from the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods throughout the world, as well as from the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age in Europe. [75] The department also has its own exhibition gallery in Room 90, where the displays and exhibitions change several times a year.[76]. A particularly important group of objects was purchased from the London Missionary Society in 1911, that includes the unique statue of A'a from Rurutu Island, the rare idol from the isle of Mangareva and the Cook Islands deity figure. In 1973, the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the British Museum, but it continued to host the now separated British Library in the same Reading Room and building as the museum until 1997. I want to read it again, soon. Two tomes that (should have, at least) changed the way we think about film history; two attempts to understand the (extra)ordinary in film cultures deemed totalitarian and therefore artistically irrelevant by our unquestioning middlebrow culture and its collaborators high and low. Lucid, rigorous and utterly readable. This is the book that taught me about film language – not just the nuts and bolts of how it works, but the aesthetics. Art and Politics Now Survey of politically themed art . Melville on MelvilleEdited by Rui Noguera, translated by Tom Milne, Secker & Warburg, 1971. (Also, in French: Nul mieux que Godard, an anthology published by Cahiers du cinéma on Godard and edited by Bergala.). Dirk Bogarde: The Authorised BiographyJohn Coldstream, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. Though in need of updating, Robinson’s History is unequalled as a single-volume narrative primer on cinema’s evolution. This was a time of innovation as electric lighting was introduced in the Reading Room and exhibition galleries. The Phantom EmpireGeoffrey O’Brien, W.W. Norton & Company, 1993. Sight & Sound reviews the latest film books every month. Viv(r)e le cinémaRoger Tailleur, Institut Lumière, 1997, Personal Views: Explorations in FilmRobin Wood, Gordon Fraser, 1976. [23] Gifts and purchases from Henry Salt, British consul general in Egypt, beginning with the Colossal bust of Ramesses II in 1818, laid the foundations of the collection of Egyptian Monumental Sculpture. The department also includes the national collection of horology with one of the most wide-ranging assemblage of clocks, watches and other timepieces in Europe, with masterpieces from every period in the development of time-keeping. These terms are still observed, and the collection occupies room 2a. But even more crucially, he understands how every general theory of cinema must start from its concrete particulars as an artform.

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