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  • - Distortions of Scotland in Hollywood Cinema
    av Colin McArthur
    1 829,-

    The films "Brigadoon" and "Braveheart" have an enormous resonance and provide general impressions of "Scottishness". This provocative study discusses the films' representations of Scotland and the Scots, looking at how Scotland is (mis)recognized and yet often comes to be "known".

  • - Cinema and American Society 1929-1939
    av Colin Schindler
    550 - 2 156,-

    A detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s. Schindler illustrates how the studios helped to foster ideas of social unity and patriotism.

  • av David Eldridge
    1 682,-

    Focusing on the 1950s when Hollywood's interest in the past was at its peak, this book reconstructs how filmmakers understood their treatment of the past, suggesting why many of them saw their work as superior to that of professional historians. It explains how and why Hollywood blurs the boundaries between fiction and historical reality.

  • - British Cinema in the Second World War
    av Tony Aldgate
    461,-

    At the outbreak of the WWII, all cinemas in Britain were closed. Ten days later, they were opened again as a way of boosting morale. Over the next six years, some 300 feature films and thousands of short films were produced in what is seen as British cinema's 'finest hour'. This work charts this period through the eyes of thirteen key films.

  • - From the 1920s to the Present
    av Mark Glancy
    1 976,-

    Investigates Hollywood's ability to appeal to British filmgoers, as well as its ability to alienate, enrage and amuse them across films ranging from The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1922) to The Patriot (2000).

  • av Geoffrey Macnab
    608 - 2 109,-

    Combining archival research and interviews with Rank's contemporaries and family, this study charts the 1940s "golden era" of the British film industry that Rank, having bought the Odeon and Gaumont British chains and made inroads into the American market, helped to create.

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