Description

This book examines the rise and fall of the picture house in Britain before the advent of the dreary and unadventurous multiplex.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Beginnings; Early Electric Palaces; The Nineteeen Twenties; The Talkies; The Modern Style; The Second World War and After; Subsdivide to Survive; Further reading; Places to visit.

Product details

Published 01 May 2005
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 32
ISBN 9780747804888
Imprint Shire Publications
Dimensions 210 x 149 mm
Series Shire Library
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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