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St. Pierre examines strategies of representing British music hall performance and the performance of the body in British cinema in the silent era and the sound era. The focus is on films of Fred and Joe Evans, Frank Randle, Will Hay, George Formby,Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Cicely Courtneidge, Jessie Matthews, Norman Evans, Max Miller, Stanley Holloway, Jack Warner, Gracie Fields, and Charles Chaplin. Consideration is given to themes such as war propaganda and gender impersonation.

Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960: On

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      Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
      Publication Date: 01/04/2009
      ISBN13: 9781611473995, 978-1611473995
      ISBN10: 1611473993

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      Book Synopsis
      St. Pierre examines strategies of representing British music hall performance and the performance of the body in British cinema in the silent era and the sound era. The focus is on films of Fred and Joe Evans, Frank Randle, Will Hay, George Formby,Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Cicely Courtneidge, Jessie Matthews, Norman Evans, Max Miller, Stanley Holloway, Jack Warner, Gracie Fields, and Charles Chaplin. Consideration is given to themes such as war propaganda and gender impersonation.

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