British Photographers

Bill Brandt (1904 - 1983)

• 1936: The English at Home. 63 photographs
• 1938: A Night in London
• 1948: The camera in London

• (interview on youtube)
  

Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912 - )

• (@ photonet.org.uk)
• (@ Museum of London)
  

Bert Hardy (1913 - 1995)

• (@ Photographers Gallery)
• (@ photonet.org.uk)
  

Roger Mayne (1929 - )

• (@ Victoria and Albert Museum)
• (@ Gitterman Gallery)

Colin O’Brien (1940 - )

• Clerkenwell in the 1950s
  

John Bulmer

• (interview on youtube)
• Hard Sixties, l’Angleterre Post-Industrielle

Patrick Keiller's London

London (1994) (dailymotion.com) (présentation du film, extrait et entretien avec Patrick Keiller sur eddistribution.com)

Robinson in space (1997) (dailymotion.com [short edit]) (présentation du film, extrait et "entretien" de Patrick Keiller avec Robinson sur eddistribution.com)


Chronique sur fluctuat.net

British New Wave

British New Wave, Part 1: Free Cinema Movement and Rise of the Rebels
British New Wave, Part 2: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
British New Wave, Part 3: A Taste of Honey
British New Wave, Part 4: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

(brokenprojector.com)

cf. Free Cinema

George Orwell

« You may hate the machine-civilization, probably you are right to hate it, but for the present there can be no question of accepting or rejecting it. The machine-civilization is here, and it can only be criticized from the inside, because all of us are inside it. » (The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937)

http://georgeorwellnovels.com/
http://orwell.ru/home.html

The Spike (1931)
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
Coming Up for Air (1939)
My Country Right or Left (1940)
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (1941)
Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)
In Defence of English Cooking (1945)
Decline of the English Murder (1946)
A Nice Cup of Tea (1946)
The Moon Under Water (1946)

Orwell, l'outsider des vies ordinaires (nonfiction.fr)
Bruce Bégout, De La Décence ordinaire (entretien sur article11.info)

Pop culture in post-war UK

Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (1957)

Edgar P. Thompson, Making of the English Working Class (1963)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_English_Working_Class

Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (1958)
http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2760

British Documentary

Engine on the Shed (LMS-London, Midland and Scottish Railway: 1936) (youtube)

Harry Watt: Night Mail (1936) (youtube), London Can Take It! (1940)

Humphrey Jennings: London Can Take It! (1940), Listen to Britain (1942), Fires Were Started (1943)

Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood (1972), My Ain Folk (1973), My Way Home (1978)

Patrick Keiller: London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997)

London Orbital (Iain Sinclair, Chris Petit: 2002)


Land Of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 (DVD review)
Shadows Of Progress: Documentary Film In Post-war Britain 1951 - 1977 (DVD & film review)

British Movies

Brighton Rock (John Boulting: 1947)

Tiger Bay (J. Lee Thompson: 1959)

Bronco Bullfrog (Barney Platts-Mills: 1971)

Sleuth (Mankiewicz: 1972)