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Autore |
Richards Jeffrey |
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Titolo |
The age of the dream palace : cinema and society in 1930s Britain / / Jeffrey Richards |
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London [England] : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , ©2010 |
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[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019 |
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ISBN |
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0-7556-9782-0 |
1-282-88152-3 |
9786612881527 |
0-85771-017-6 |
1-4416-7947-2 |
600-00-4394-5 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (406 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cinema and society series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motion picture actors and actresses - Great Britain |
Motion picture audiences - Great Britain |
Motion pictures - Social aspects - Great Britain |
Films, cinema |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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