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Hardcover. This book draws together some of the leading experts on Ealing and British cinema to explore the history of Britain's best loved film studio. Tying in with the BFI's major retrospective of Ealing Studios in November/December 2012, it presents a closer look at the known and unknown elements of Ealing, its films and their sometimes unsung creators. Editor(s): Duguid, Mark; Williams, Melanie; Johnston, Keith; Freeman, Lee. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; APF; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 194 x 26. Weight in Grams: 922.
Ealing Revisited provides a major reappraisal of one of British cinema's best-loved institutions, Ealing Studios. During its heyday, Ealing produced a string of classic comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955), but there is much more to Ealing than these films, as this volume of new writing on the studio shows. Addressing both known and less familiar aspects of Ealing's story, its films, actors and technicians, the contributors uncover what has gone unexplored, or unspoken, in previous histories of the studio, and consider the impact ... Read more
Ealing Revisited provides a major reappraisal of one of British cinema's best-loved institutions, Ealing Studios. During its heyday, Ealing produced a string of classic comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955), but there is much more to Ealing than these films, as this volume of new writing on the studio shows. Addressing both known and less familiar aspects of Ealing's story, its films, actors and technicians, the contributors uncover what has gone unexplored, or unspoken, in previous histories of the studio, and consider the impact ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
British Film Institute
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844575114
SKU
V9781844575114
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Ref
99-5
About
MARK DUGUID is a senior curator at the BFI National Archive. He is the author of the BFI TV Classic on Cracker (2009). MELANIE WILLIAMS is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is the author of Prisoners of Gender: Women in the Films of J. Lee Thompson (2009), and a co-editor ... Read more
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