The age of the dream palace : cinema and society in 1930s Britain / / Jeffrey Richards
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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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| Pubblicazione: | London [England] : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , ©2010 |
| [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302.23430941 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion picture actors and actresses - Great Britain |
| Motion picture audiences - Great Britain | |
| Motion pictures - Social aspects - Great Britain | |
| Films, cinema | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 critic, a compulsive moviegoer, and a professional historian', tells the absorbing story of the cinema during the decade that produced Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, the musicals of Jessie Matthews and Alexander Korda's epics. He examines the role of going to the pictures in people's lives during a tough period when, in. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The age of the dream palace |
| ISBN: | 0-7556-9782-0 |
| 1-282-88152-3 | |
| 9786612881527 | |
| 0-85771-017-6 | |
| 1-4416-7947-2 | |
| 600-00-4394-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827308703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Cinema and society.