Where we Came In

Seventy Years of the British Film Industry

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by Charles Allen Oakley

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Great Britain

Keywords

Great Britain, history of cinema

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

1st publishing

2013

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 264 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-138-98710-4

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Book Presentation:
Originally published in 1964, this book tells the history of the British cinematograph industry for the first time. It describes moments of splendid triumph and others of shattering failure. The mood switches from reckless optimism to demoralising pessimism, from years in which British films won the highest international awards to those when they were dismissed with scorn.

It recalls a score of productions still ranked among the world's best, and the stars whose reputation was established in them. Attention is focused on the directors, those who kept to the fore during two and three decades and those with only one major success to their name. Behind them the men are identified who strove, often to their considerable financial loss, to gain a worthy place for British films in the world’s markets.

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