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Soho on Screen : Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963 /
Despite Soho's rich cultural history, there remains an absence of work on the depiction of the popular neighbourhood in film. Soho on Screen provides one of the first studies of Soho within postwar British cinema. Drawing upon historical, cultural and urban studies of the area, this book explor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Figure 0.1. Map of Soho, 1720
- 1 Tracking Shot: Soho Square to Wardour Street, London's 'Film Row'
- 2 Soho's Bohemian-Cosmopolitans and Postwar British Cinema
- 3 'God Is Everywhere!': Engineering the Immigrant Landscape of Miracle in Soho (1957)
- 4 Soho-Hollywood: The Birth of the Soho 'B' Film
- 5 Old Perils, New Pleasures: West End Jungle (1961) and the Birth of Commercial Vice
- 6 'An' I Fort Jews Were Supposed to Be Lucky!': Jewish Wide Boys, Johnny Jackson and Sammy Lee
- 7 Soho Melodrama: Cinematic Spaces of Sexual Blackmail, The Flesh Is Weak (1957) and The Shakedown (1960)
- 8 Subversive Female Sexualities and the Soho Coffee Bar: Beat Girl (1960) and Rag Doll (1961)
- 9 Soho Strip Clubs (Part One): The Windmill Theatre and Its Cinematic Legacy
- 10 Soho Strip Clubs (Part Two): The Stage and the Dressing Room
- Conclusion. 'Warm-Hearted Tarts' and the Year 'Old Soho' Died: Campaigns, Rebirth and The World Ten Times Over (1963)
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index