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This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre. Why were so many West End legends such as Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Ellen Terry repeatedly tempted to dabble in silent film work? Why were film producers so keen to employ them? Jon Burrows studies their screen performances and considers how successfully they made the transition from one medium to the other, and offers some controversial conclusions about the surprisingly broad social range of filmgoers to whom their films appealed.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Legitimate Cinema
• Subtitle: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918
• Author: Jon Burrows
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780859897259
• ISBN: 0859897257
• ID: 04743808
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS
• Weight: 631 g
• Dimensions: 243 × 158 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. January 2003

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