Searching for Stars - Stardom and Screen Acting in British Cinema

Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Macnab is a film journalist and critic for The Independent! The Guardian and Screen International . He is based in London! UK. Klappentext Explores the reasons behind British cinema's failure to create its own stars. The text looks at the way theatre and music hall spawned their stars! and asks why so many of them found the transition to film so awkward. It compares the British star system with that of Hollywood. Zusammenfassung Explores the reasons behind British cinema's failure to create its own stars. The text looks at the way theatre and music hall spawned their stars! and asks why so many of them found the transition to film so awkward. It compares the British star system with that of Hollywood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface                                    vi 1. Of Knights and Clowns                                             1 2. The Not-So-Roaring 20's: Ivor Novello and Betty Balfour 34 3. The King! The Queen and the Dancing Divinity        59 4. Carnival and Consensus                                          83 5. Stock Types                                                         104 6. Exotic Outsiders                                                   143 7. Lockwood! Calvert and Some Other Contract Artists 154 8. Starmakers                                                            172 9. The End of the Studio System                                201 Bibliography                                                              208 Index                                                                        211

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Macnab, Geoffrey McNab
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780304333523
• ISBN: 978-0-304-33352-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Rethinking British Cinema; Rethinking British Cinema; Rethinking British Cinema S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Film, Kino, Fernsehen, TV