Book Series in Media & Film Studies
Cinema and Society
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Cinema and the Great War
Cinema and the Great War concentrates on one part of the art of the war: the cinema. Used as tool for propaganda during the war… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-415-05203-0 (Routledge)
Hollywood in Crisis
Cinema and American Society 1929-1939
Hollywood in Crisis is a detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s. Colin Schindler, looking at Hollywood as an… read more1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-10314-5 (Routledge)
J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry
Presiding over the "golden era" of the British Film Industry from the mid to late 1940s, J. Arthur Rank financed movies such as Oliver Twist,… read more1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-11711-1 (Routledge)
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The Hidden Cinema
British Film Censorship in Action 1913-1972
How does film censorship work in Britain? Jim Robertson's new paperback edition of The Hidden Cinema argues that censorship has had a far greater influence… read more1993 | Paperback: 978-0-415-09034-6 (Routledge)
Realism and Tinsel
Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48
With themes ranging from passion and romance to murder and psychological disturbance, popular British film in the 1940s found little favour with the critics, but… read more1992 | Paperback: 978-0-415-07684-5 (Routledge)