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Shepperton Babylon
Matthew Sweet
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Description for Shepperton Babylon
Paperback. Welcome to the lost worlds of British cinema. This book features a secret history of British movies that includes the scandals, the suicides, the immolations and the contract killings - the product of thousands of conversations with veteran film-makers. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 368.
This is a wonderful secret history of British movies that includes the scandals, the suicides, the immolations and the contract killings - the product of thousands of conversations with veteran film-makers. Here you'll meet, among many others, the 20s film idols snorting cocaine from an illuminated glass dance floor on the bank of the Thames, the model who escaped Soho's gangsters to become the queen of the nudie flicks and the genteel Scottish comedienne who, at the age of fifty-five, reinvented herself as a star of exploitation cinema, and fondly remembers 'the one where I drilled in people's heads and ... Read more
This is a wonderful secret history of British movies that includes the scandals, the suicides, the immolations and the contract killings - the product of thousands of conversations with veteran film-makers. Here you'll meet, among many others, the 20s film idols snorting cocaine from an illuminated glass dance floor on the bank of the Thames, the model who escaped Soho's gangsters to become the queen of the nudie flicks and the genteel Scottish comedienne who, at the age of fifty-five, reinvented herself as a star of exploitation cinema, and fondly remembers 'the one where I drilled in people's heads and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571212989
SKU
V9780571212989
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Ref
99-60
About Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet presents Night Waves and Freethinking on BBC Radio 3, and is the summer presenter of The Film Programme on Radio Four. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon, which he adapted as a film for BBC Four. His TV programmes include Silent Britain, A Brief History of Fun, The Age of Excess, Truly, Madly, ... Read more
Reviews for Shepperton Babylon
"'A singular triumph... It makes our cinematic history vivid and invigorating in a way few books have yet managed.' Empire 'Very well-informed and effortlessly funny. I doubt there will be a better film book this year.' Independent"