Research Catalog
Picture perfect : landscape, place and travel in British cinema before 1930
- Title
- Picture perfect : landscape, place and travel in British cinema before 1930 / edited by Laraine Porter and Bryony Dixon.
- Publication
- Exeter, UK : Exeter Press, 2007.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | MFL 07-4705 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, 143 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- New research in British film and television studies
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Alan Burton and Laraine Porter -- Location, location, location: the Sixth British Silent Cinema weekend / Bryony Dixon -- On location in Edwardian Britain: urban and rural violence / Tony Fletcher -- The marketing of landscapes in silent British cinema / Paul Moody -- Narrative and pictorialism in post-pioneer Hepworth films / Simon Brown -- Pastoral transformations in 1920s British cinema / Christine Gledhill -- 'The plucky girl' and the 'pigeon to pluck': characters, locations and entertainment forms in Rogues of London / Judith Cowan -- Trainers and temptresses: the British racing drama / Judith McLaren -- The first cameraman in Iceland: travel film and travel literature / Ivo Blom -- The Anglo-Boer War in north London: a micro-study / Ian Christie -- 'Everyone's doing the Riviera' because 'It's so much nicer in Nice' / Amy Sargeant -- The city of the future / Patrick Keiller -- Cooperation and the contestation of public space / Alan Burton -- Billy Merson's monologue: blighted my life / Michael Eaton.
- Call Number
- MFL 07-4705
- ISBN
- 9781905816002 (hbk.)
- 1905816006 (hbk.)
- 9781905816019 (pbk.)
- 1905816014 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 136905139
- Title
- Picture perfect : landscape, place and travel in British cinema before 1930 / edited by Laraine Porter and Bryony Dixon.
- Imprint
- Exeter, UK : Exeter Press, 2007.
- Series
- New research in British film and television studies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Porter, Laraine.Dixon, Bryony.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 07-4705