Music Hall Mimesis in British Film, 1895-1960: On the Halls on the Screen

by PaulMatthewSt.Pierre (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $59.74

  Examines strategies of representing British music hall performance (1854-1919) and the performance of the body in British cinema in the silent era (1895-1927) and the sound era (1927-60). This book focuses on films of Fred and Joe Evans, Frank Randle, Will Hay, George Formby, Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Cicely Courtneidge and Jessie Matthews.