This book explores the history of Cornwall‘s portrayal on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark books. Innovative new research looking at amateur film and newsreels, avant-garde and documentary works alongside mainstream popular film and television. 7 b&w and 13 col. illus.

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9780859890779 | Published: 2018

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9780859893589 | Published: 2018

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9780859890885 | Published: 2019

In the 1930s there were close to a billion annual admissions to the cinema in Britain and it was by far the most popular paid-for leisure activity. This book is an exploration of that popularity. The book establishes similarities and differences between national and regional tastes through case study analysis of cinemagoing in Bolton and Brighton.

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9780859896603 | Published: 2000

The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.

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9780859898546 | Published: 2011

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9780859898539 | Published: 2011

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9780859899420 | Published: 2015

This book’s treatment of the extensive circulation of European silent features and stars in Australasia reveals the vibrant transnationalism of silent film before the rise of Hollywood, and frames the emergence of art house cinema in the 1920s.

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9781905816873 | Published: 2022

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9781905816880 | Published: 2022

Silent Features is a collection of essays on seventeen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features, their diverse stylistic, generic and structural characteristics, and the national, historical and industrial contexts from which they emerged. Of the 17 films discussed, 15 are still currently available on DVD. 200 b&w illustrations.

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9780859892919 | Published: 2018

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9780859892896 | Published: 2018

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9781905816255 | Published: 2019

The World According to Hollywood examines the world-wide influence of the American film industry during its golden age — the 1920s and 1930s — and investigates the business policies that shaped the fictional universe of Hollywood movies.

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9780859895545 | Published: 1997

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9780859895538 | Published: 1997

This book brings together the study of silent cinema and the study of British cinema, both of which have seen some of the most exciting developments in Film Studies in recent years. The result is a comprehensive survey of one of the most important periods of film history.

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9780859897174 | Published: 2002

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9780859896597 | Published: 2002