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  • The Kinetoscope

    A British History

    par Richard Brown, Barry Anthony ...
    The story of how the motion-picture device was developed, and its role in Victorian society and early cinema.The position of the kinetoscope in film history is central and undisputed; indicative of its importance is the detailed attention American scholars have given to examining its history. However, the Kinetoscope's development in Britain has not been well documented and much current ... En savoir plus

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  • Chaplin's Music Hall

    The Chaplins and their Circle in the Limelight

    par Barry Anthony ...
    Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence, shaping his style of acting and the films he made, most famously Limelight, which tells the story of a ... En savoir plus

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  • Finding Birt Acres

    The Rediscovery of a Film Pioneer

    par Deac Rossell, Barry Anthony, Peter Domankiewicz ...
    Collections series Exeter Studies in Film History
    Apparently from Virginia, Birt Acres appeared out of nowhere in Britain aged 35, without a trace of his former life. Yet immediately he became a prominent figure in the late Victorian photographic world. He soon teamed up with Robert Paul to make a moving picture camera and then shot the first commercial films in Britain in spring 1895, in parallel with the work of the Lumière brothers in France, ... En savoir plus

    $138.59 CAD

  • Pimple's Progress

    Fred Evans, Britain's First Film Comedy Star

    par Barry Anthony ...
    In 1915, British moviegoers voted Fred Evans second only to Charles Chaplin as their favorite film comedian. Appearing as the roguish and anarchic "Pimple," Fred made 200 silent movies between 1910 and 1922, running amok in frantic chases and sending-up current events and fashions. With a rich family heritage in pantomime and music hall, Evans introduced a satirical approach to filmmaking, ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Murder, Mayhem and Music Hall

    The Dark Side of Victorian London

    par Barry Anthony ...
    The Strand is one of London's most iconic streets - today the bustling and thriving home of West End theatres and the luxurious Savoy hotel; in the Victorian era, the Strand was a much more seedy and destitute part of the city. Barry Anthony here explores the criminal and socially subversive behaviour which abounded in and around the Victorian Strand. He introduces us to a vast range of ... En savoir plus

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  • The King's Jester

    The Life of Dan Leno, Victorian Comic Genius

    par Barry Anthony ...
    Who was Dan Leno? In 1901 everyone in Britain knew who he was. They had seen him live on the music hall stage, listened to his jokes on the new gramophone and watched his funny antics in some of the earliest moving pictures. Even King Edward VII was a fan and the popular press dubbed Dan Leno 'The King's Jester'. But his path to fame was a hard one: he journeyed from being a child performer in the ... En savoir plus

    $57.99 CAD

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  • The London Blue Plaque Guide

    Fourth Edition

    par Nick Rennison ...
    Connecting people with places, London's distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in our history and culture have lived and worked.From Gertrude Bell to Karl Marx, Charlie Chaplin to Jimi Hendrix, this fully updated 5th edition of The London Blue Plaque Guide has over a thousand entries and provides an essential companion to the famous ... En savoir plus

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  • The Railways

    Nation, Network and People

    par Simon Bradley ...
    **'A magnificent, rollicking narrative' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Top 25 Non-Fiction Books of the 21st Century'Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2015Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Consuming Passions

    Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

    par Judith Flanders ...
    A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork – a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • My Old Man

    A Personal History of Music Hall

    par John Major ...
    Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall.Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the underdog, it held a mirror to the audiences’ hopes, fears and the general absurdity of ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Great British Dream Factory

    The Strange History of Our National Imagination

    par Dominic Sandbrook ...
    SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing base is a shadow of its former self; the Royal Navy has been reduced to a skeleton. In military, diplomatic and economic terms, we no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim superpower status: our popular culture.It is extraordinary to think that one British writer, ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Gresley and His Locomotives

    L & N E R Design History

    par Tim Hillier-Graves ...
    An in-depth look at the team who worked with the renowned British railway engineer, with numerous photos included.To renowned engineer Nigel Gresley must go great credit for many of the London and North Eastern Railway's achievements, but those around him have faded into obscurity and are now largely forgotten, even though their contributions were immense. To redress this imbalance, Tim Hillier ... En savoir plus

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