Alternative Film Culture in Interwar Britain

In the first book-length study to concentrate specifically on Britain, Jamie Sexton examines the rise of avant-garde and experimental film-making between the wars.

The book provides a detailed view of how modernist and anti-mainstream currents emerged in the film industry

Jamie Sexton is Lecturer in Film Studies in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His other books include Cult Cinema: An Introduction (with Ernest Mathijs, forthcoming 2009); Experimental British Television (edited with Laura Mulvey, 2007); Music, Sound and Multimedia (edited, 2007).