Realism and Tinsel
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`Pursuing his theory in lively style and with examination of a large number of productions, the author has written an unfailingly interesting study, fully documented and concluding with a useful chronology of cinema society through the period.' - Film Review
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`Robert Murphy ... has broken new ground, not only in covering the British cinema in the forties as a whole, but in looking beyond the critical orthodoxy ...' - Eric Braun, The Stage and Television Today
`...very well documented, gracefully written, and convincingly argued.' - Choice
`...[a] welcome addition to the impressive `Cinema and Society' series...' - History Today
Sight and Sound praised: `... the readiness, indeed eagerness, of Murphy's study to browse along not just the main thoroughfare of 1940s British Cinema ... but also an assortment of back streets: By-Ways for variety and radio stars.'
`Pursuing his theory in lively style and with examination of a large number of productions, the author has written an unfailingly interesting study, fully documented and concluding with a useful chronology of cinema society through the period.' - Film Review
`... elegant and clearly written ...' - Michael Paris, History Today
`Robert Murphy ... has broken new ground, not only in covering the British cinema in the forties as a whole, but in looking beyond the critical orthodoxy ...' - Eric Braun, The Stage and Television Today
`... solidly researched ... a detailed and straightforward account of the hundreds of British films turned out during the period ...' - J.K.L. Walker, Times Literary Supplement
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 296
- ISBN
- 9781138152151
- Utgivelsesår
- 2016
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«
`Pursuing his theory in lively style and with examination of a large number of productions, the author has written an unfailingly interesting study, fully documented and concluding with a useful chronology of cinema society through the period.' - Film Review
»
`Robert Murphy ... has broken new ground, not only in covering the British cinema in the forties as a whole, but in looking beyond the critical orthodoxy ...' - Eric Braun, The Stage and Television Today
`...very well documented, gracefully written, and convincingly argued.' - Choice
`...[a] welcome addition to the impressive `Cinema and Society' series...' - History Today
Sight and Sound praised: `... the readiness, indeed eagerness, of Murphy's study to browse along not just the main thoroughfare of 1940s British Cinema ... but also an assortment of back streets: By-Ways for variety and radio stars.'
`Pursuing his theory in lively style and with examination of a large number of productions, the author has written an unfailingly interesting study, fully documented and concluding with a useful chronology of cinema society through the period.' - Film Review
`... elegant and clearly written ...' - Michael Paris, History Today
`Robert Murphy ... has broken new ground, not only in covering the British cinema in the forties as a whole, but in looking beyond the critical orthodoxy ...' - Eric Braun, The Stage and Television Today
`... solidly researched ... a detailed and straightforward account of the hundreds of British films turned out during the period ...' - J.K.L. Walker, Times Literary Supplement