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J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry
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J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry Hardcover - 1993

by Geoffrey Macnab


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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 Rank charts every aspect of the robust film culture that Rank helped to create. Having started out with relatively little knowledge of the cinema, Rank's sponsorship was to bring about astounding progress within the industry, and by establishing an organization comparable in size to any of the major Hollywood studios, Rank briefly managed to reconcile and consolidate the competing demands of "art" and "business" - an achievement very much absent from today's diminished and fragmented film industry.
Macnab goes on to explain the eventual collapse of the Rank experiment amidst the economic and political maelstrom of post-war Britain, highlighting the problems still facing the industry today. By meshing archival research with interviews with Rank's contemporaries and members of his family, this definitive study firmly restores Rank to his rightful place at the hub of British film history.

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  • Title J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry
  • Author Geoffrey Macnab
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition/Fi
  • Pages 324
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London
  • Date 1993-05
  • ISBN 9780415072724 / 0415072727
  • Weight 1.78 lbs (0.81 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.44 x 6.44 x 0.99 in (23.98 x 16.36 x 2.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture industry - Great Britain -, Rank Organisation - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92024832
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430
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