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Legitimate Cinema
Jon Burrows
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Description for Legitimate Cinema
Hardback. This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre. Series: Exeter Studies in Film History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; APB; APF; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 631.
This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre. Why were so many West End legends such as Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Ellen Terry repeatedly tempted to dabble in silent film work? Why were film producers so keen to employ them? Jon Burrows studies their screen performances and considers how successfully they made the transition from one medium to the other, and offers some controversial conclusions about the surprisingly broad social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Exeter Studies in Film History
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Exeter, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859897259
SKU
V9780859897259
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About Jon Burrows
Jon Burrows is a lecturer in the Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick. He is the author of numerous articles about silent British cinema, including contributions to British Stars and Stardom (Manchester, 2001), The British Cinema Book, 2nd edition (London, 2001), and Young And Innocent? (UEP 2002).
Reviews for Legitimate Cinema
"This study of theatre-film relationships and acting practices in the teens offers a major contribution to British film history, rigorously grounded in empirical research, compellingly argued and engagingly written . . . It will make an invaluable contribution not only to knowledge of the silent period of British filmmaking, but to the increasing interchange between film and theatre scholarship." (Professor ... Read more