Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film
by Chibnall, Steve
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London: BFI Publishing. Near Fine. 2007. 1st Edition (softcover issue). Softcover. [nice clean copy, light external handling wear, one diagonally-creased upper page corner]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles, tables) A history of the low-budget second features produced in England during the 1930s, which have traditionally been viewed as "the films that American distributors used to bring British cinema into disrepute and ruin its prospects of international expansion," a reputation that this book seeks to correct. The book "interrogates the conditions of their production, the politics of the attempts to censor and suppress them, and, by examining detailed evidence from one provincial city, supplies insights into their distribution and exhibition. The quickies emerge from this examination as a significant source of cultural representations, a vital training ground for actors and film-makers, and, occasionally, as innovative and even radical pictures in their own right." Includes a full filmography of all British second/supporting features produced between 1928 and 1939. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index Includes filmography
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film
- Author
- Chibnall, Steve
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition (softcover issue)
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- BFI Publishing
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- British Cinema, Cinema: History, Low-budget Films, British Culture
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