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ToolsFarmer, Richard (2016) Cinemas and cinemagoing in wartime Britain, 1939-45:The utility dream palace. Studies in Popular Culture . Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719091889
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During the Second World War, the popularity and importance of the cinema in Britain was at its peak. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Farmer provides a social and cultural history of cinemas and cinemagoing in Britain between 1939 and 1945, and explores the impact that the war had on the places in which British people watched films. Although promising the possibility of escape from the hardships and terrors of wartime life, the cinema was so intimately woven into the fabric of British society that it could not itself escape the war. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, and on the memories of wartime cinemagoers, Cinemas and Cinemagoing in wartime Britain, 1939-45 is the first book to offer an in-depth exploration of the impact that phenomena such as the black out, the blitz, food rationing, evacuation and conscription had on both the exhibition industry and the experiences of the picturegoers themselves.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cinemas,cinemagoing,second world war,britain,exhibition industry,blitz,blackout |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2016 02:08 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 23:45 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61003 |
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