Andrew Spicer

Sydney Box

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A lucid and informative account, drawing on unpublished material, of the career of one of the most successful and significant producers in British cinema. It provides discussion of all his films, including The Seventh Veil (1945), and affords an exceptional insight into the workings of the wartime and postwar British film and television industries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780719060007
• ISBN-10: 0719060001
• Artikelnr.: 33262968

Autorenporträt

Andrew Spicer is Reader in Cultural History in the Bristol School of Art, Media and Design at the University of the West of England.

Inhaltsangabe

1. In praise of producers 2. The self-made man 3. The documentarist: Verity
films 4. 'I had something they wanted to buy': Feature film producer 5.
'The apple of Mr Rank's mercatorial eye': Managing director of Gainsborough
Pictures (1946-1949) 6. 'One a month': The Gainsborough films 7. Precarious
independence: The 1950s 8. Lion hunt and after 9. Conclusion Appendix:
Costs and box-office evenues of Box's films distributed by Rank, where
available Filmography