Sydney Box

Sydney BoxA lucid and informative account, drawing on unpublished material, of the career of Sydney Box, one of the most successful producers in British cinema. It provides discussion of all his films, including The Seventh Veil (1945), and affords an exceptional insight into the workings of the wartime and postwar British film and television industry.

A number of key feature films are discussed including Forty Thousand Horsemen

Iuvachëv experienced one of the penal colony’s most tumultuous periods

José María Rodríguez Méndez is a noted playwright

From the earliest makers of moving images – among them the Lumière brothers – Liverpool has endured as a cinematic destination for years

heterosexual constructs of gender

and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century

A novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist

both World Wars and the Korean War

as a common project

This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of ‘microtravel’

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