British national cinema

Traces the development of the British film industry, from the Lumiere brothers' first screening in London in 1896, through to the dominance of Hollywood and the severe financial crises which affected Goldcrest, Handmade Films and Palace Pictures in the late 1980s and 1990s.

First sentence: Cinema was born in the 1890s, the 'last machine' of Victorian invention.

Year

1997

Language

English

Series

National cinemas

Publisher

Routledge

Editions

13

Pages

282

ISBN

9780415384216

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