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16%OFFCharles Drazin - Korda: Britain´s Movie Mogul - 9781848856950 - V9781848856950
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Korda: Britain´s Movie Mogul

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Description for Korda: Britain´s Movie Mogul Paperback. This gripping biography tells how with extraordinary ambition, enterprise and showmanship, Alexander Korda established in Britain a film industry that rivalled Hollywood, built Europe's biggest studio, and created world-class stars, including Charles Laughton and Vivien Leigh. Num Pages: 424 pages, 2 x 8pp bw plates. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 209 x 33. Weight in Grams: 720.
The producer behind such celebrated films as The Four Feathers and The Third Man is one of the most colourful and important figures in the history of the British cinema. This gripping biography tells how with extraordinary ambition, enterprise and showmanship, Alexander Korda established in Britain a film industry that rivalled Hollywood, built Europe's biggest studio, and created world-class stars, including Charles Laughton and Vivien Leigh. The biography traces Korda's path from his rural childhood in a remote part of Hungary to a British knighthood. Korda's legacy, it argues, was a film industry that dared to dream on ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848856950
SKU
V9781848856950
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About Charles Drazin
Charles Drazin's previous books include The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 1940s and In Search of The Third Man. He lectures on the cinema at Queen Mary, University of London.

Reviews for Korda: Britain´s Movie Mogul
'In this thorough and jaunty biography, Drazin gives us a masterly portrait.' - Sunday Times; 'An engrossing exegesis of film-making in inter- war Britain and a rounded portrait of what we'd now call an economic migrant who lived profligately, left others poorer and occasionally and enduringly enriched the screen.' - Evening Standard; 'Wry, ruthless ... Read more

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