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374 pages : 21 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-355) and index 1. The invention of the cinema -- 2. The beginnings of an industry -- 3. The birth of narrative cinema -- 4. The end of the silent era -- 5. The 1930s sound film -- 6. Style in the interwar years: Hitchcock and Asquith -- 7. Korda and the dominant myths of the 1930s -- 8. Grierson and the documentary idea -- 9. Documentary at war: Humphrey Jennings -- 10. Rank and the entertainment film -- 11. Balcon at Ealing -- 12. Literary cinema: Asquith, Reed and Lean -- 13. Two individualists: Powell and Dickinson -- 14. Formulas for success -- 15. From Free Cinema to Woodfall -- 16. The foreign impact: Polanski, Losey, Kubrick -- 17. An art of the real: Russell, Loach and Watkins -- 18. Alternative cinemas
- Author
- Armes, Roy
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1978
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780436018039
- Subjects
- Sports, Literary Fiction, History
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