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1. Cinema and the Great War

   By Andrew Kelly

   Series: Cinema and Society

   Cinema and the Great War concentrates on one part of the art of the war: the cinema. Used as tool for propaganda during the war itself, by the mid 1920s cinema had begun to reflect the rejection of conflict prevalent in all the arts. Andrew Kelly explores the development of anti-war cinema in,...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
2. Hollywood in Crisis

   Cinema and American Society 1929-1939

   By Colin Schindler

   Series: Cinema and Society

   A detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s. Schindler illustrates how the studios helped to foster ideas of social unity and patriotism....

   Published June 26th 1996 by Routledge
3. J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry

   By Macnab

   Series: Cinema and Society

   Presiding over the "golden era" of the British Film Industry from the mid to late 1940s, J. Arthur Rank financed movies such as Oliver Twist, The Red Shoes, Brief Encounter, Caesar and Cleopatra and Black Narcissus. Never before, and never since, has the industry risen to such heights. J. Arthur...

   Published September 14th 1994 by Routledge
4. The Hidden Cinema

   British Film Censorship in Action 1913-1972

   By Dr James C Robertson, James Robertson

   Series: Cinema and Society

   How does film censorship work in Britain? Jim Robertson's new paperback edition of The Hidden Cinema argues that censorship has had a far greater influence on British film history than is often apparent, creating the `hidden cinema' of the title. Robertson charts the role of the British Board of...

   Published May 5th 1993 by Routledge
5. Realism and Tinsel

   Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48

   By Robert Murphy

   Series: Cinema and Society

   Looking at popular British film in the 1940s, Realism and Tinsel goes beyond the established histories of the Ealing Comedies to excavate a rich tradition of melodrama, morbid thrillers and costume pictures....

   Published April 15th 1992 by Routledge