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Idols of the Odeons
eBook - Post-war British film stardom, Manchester University Press
ISBN/EAN: 9781526147028
Umbreit-Nr.: 995017
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 344 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 23.04.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <i>Idols of the Odeons</i> examines British film stardom in the post-war era, a time when Hollywood movies were increasingly supplanting the Pinewood/Elstree studio system. The book encompasses the careers of sixteen actors, including Stanley Baker, Diana Dors, Norman Wisdom, Hattie Jacques, Peter Finch and Peter Sellers. Such extremely diverse careers provide the opportunity to explore overlooked films, in addition to examining how the term star could apply to a stalwart leading man, a Variety comic, a self-created Vamp and a character actor. Above all, this is a book that celebrates, with idiosyncratic humour and warmth, how these actors accomplished much of their best work during the transitional period between the Rank/ABPC roster of stars and the US domination of the British film industry.
- Kurztext
- This book provides an extensive overview of the British actors who achieved their greatest stardom during the 1950s. This was a transitional period for the British cinema, when the major studios faced growing competition from television and Hollywood increasingly dominated the UK film industry.
- Autorenportrait
- Andrew Roberts is an independent scholar