The age of the dream palace : cinema and society in 1930s Britain /

The period between the two world wars is often named 'the golden age of the cinema' in Britain. This definitive and entertaining book on the cinema and cinema-goers of the era is herewith reissued with a new Introduction. Jeffrey Richards, described by Philip French as 'a shrewd criti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Richards, Jeffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, ©2010.
Colección:Cinema and society.
Temas:
Motion pictures > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Motion picture audiences > Great Britain.
Motion picture actors and actresses > Great Britain.
Cinéma > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Cinéma > Publics > Grande-Bretagne.
Films, cinema.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Motion picture actors and actresses
Motion picture audiences
Motion pictures > Social aspects
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Going to the pictures
  • The dream merchants
  • 'The devil's camera'
  • 'Our movie-made children'
  • The aims and principles of censorship
  • Censorship in operation: domestic policy
  • Censorship in operation: foreign policy
  • Censorship in operation: imperial policy
  • Stars
  • Gracie Fields: consensus personified
  • George Formby: The road from Wigan Pier
  • Jessie Matthews: the dancing divinity
  • The romantic adventurer: Robert Donat and Leslie Howard
  • Putting Britain on the screen
  • Visions of the past--messages for the present
  • Images of peace and war
  • Class and consensus: lower down
  • Class and consensus: higher up.

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