Four from the Forties

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Four from the Forties

By Brian McFarlane

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About the book

The 'Gainsborough melodramas' were a mainstay of 1940s British cinema, and helped make the careers of such stars as Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Stewart Granger. But what was unique about these films? And who were the directors behind them? This book presents four key filmmakers, each with his own talents and specialities. It traces their professional lives through the highs of the 1940s, when the popularity of Gainsborough films was at its peak, to the tougher decades that followed the ge...Show more

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ISBN

9781526110541

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published year

2018

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Edition

1

Original title

Four from the Forties

Format

Hardcover

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