Description
Book SynopsisThis offers an understanding of British Cinema between 1928 and 1939 through an analysis of the relationship between the British film industry and other culture industries' such as the radio, music recording, publishing and early television.
Trade Review
‘Napper writes with both intelligence and vitality’ (Amy Sargeant, Modernism/Modernity vol. 17, no. 2: April 2010)
‘A cogent and scholarly intervention in an interesting ongoing historical debate. Exeter Studies in Film History, edited by Richard Maltby and Steve Neale for the University of Exeter Press, now comprises more than a dozen scholarly volumes re-thinking and re-evaluating what was for long the received history of the movies.’ (Ian Jarvie, Film History 22.3: 2010)
‘This is a diligently researched approach to the cultural debate, with much to recommend.’(Andrew Thomas Croft, Historical Journal of Film, Radio & TV, 31.1., 2011)
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: The 'Middlebrow' Concept of the National: Music Hath Charms 1935
1. A Law for British Film: The Cinematography Films Act 1927
2. British Cinema, The Publishing Industry and the Mass Market: The Constant Nymph 1924-1928
3. The 'Middlebrow' Debate and Film: The Good Companions 1929-1933
4. New and Old Cultures: The Lambeth Walk 1937-1939
Conclusion: The Viability of National Cinema
Notes
Bibliography
Index
