London on Film /

This book, a collection of essays by expert film researchers and lecturers, contributes to the growing body of scholarship on cinematic cities by looking at how one city London has been represented on film. In particular, the collection examines how films about London have responded to social, mater...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Hirsch, Pam; O'Rourke, Chris
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Screening Spaces
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64979-5
Summary: This book, a collection of essays by expert film researchers and lecturers, contributes to the growing body of scholarship on cinematic cities by looking at how one city London has been represented on film. In particular, the collection examines how films about London have responded to social, material and political change in the city, either by capturing and so influencing how we think about London, or by acting as catalysts (intentionally or otherwise) for public debate. Individual essays explore films ranging from the earliest actualities of the late nineteenth century to contemporary blo
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XV, 257 pages): illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319649795
Index Number: PN1993
CLC: J909.561
Contents: 1. Introduction: Film Londons - Pam Hirsch and Chris O Rourke -- 2. Local Film Subjects : Suburban Cinema, 1895-1910 - Roland-Fran ois Lack -- 3. Glamour and Crime: The London Nightclub in Silent Film - Mara Arts -- 4. Hitchcock s Sabotage (1936): Conspirators and Bombs in Actual, Literary and Filmic London - Pam Hirsch -- 5. A Relic of the Bad Old Days : Hollywood s London in None but the Lonely Heart (1944) - Mark Glancy -- 6. London Can Take It: Documentary Reconstructions of the City - Michael McCluskey -- 7. From the Docks to Notting Hill: Cinematic Mappings of Imperial and Post-Imperia