British Popular Films 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance

by Stephen Shafer

Shafer's study challenges the conventional historical assumption that British feature films during the Thirties were mostly oriented to the middle-class. Instead, he makes the critical distinction between films intended for West End and international circulation and those intended primarily for domestic, working-class audiences. Far from being alientated by a 'middle-class institution', working men and women flocked to see pictures featuring such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415002826
• ISBN13: 9780415002820
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"