Overview
- Focuses on entrepreneurs who opened the first cinemas in Britain
- Examines how cinemas performed as businesses
- Provides unique analysis of detailed statistical data about film exhibition, distribution and production in the 1910s
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jon Burrows is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918 (2003) and numerous essays and articles about British film culture in the silent era.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The British Cinema Boom, 1909–1914
Book Subtitle: A Commercial History
Authors: Jon Burrows
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39677-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39676-1Published: 29 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39677-8Published: 26 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 242
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: British Cinema and TV, History of Britain and Ireland, Film History, Film/TV Industry