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Author Stead, Lisa, author.

Title Off to the pictures : cinema-going, women's writing and movie culture in interwar Britain / Lisa Stead.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
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Summary Using detailed case studies, this innovative book draws upon new archival research, industrial analysis and close textual readings to consider cinema#65533;e(tm)s place in the fictions and critical writings of major female literary figures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index.
Contents Off to the pictures: cinema, fiction and interwar culture -- Screen fantasies: tie-ins and the short story -- Middlebrow modernity: class, cinema-going and selfhood -- Wander, watch, repeat: Jean Rhys and cinema -- Film talk: C.A. Lejeune and the female film critic -- Elinor Glyn: intermedial romance and authorial stardom.
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Subject Motion pictures and women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures and women.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures.
Feminism and motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Feminism and motion pictures.
Motion pictures in literature.
Motion pictures in literature.
English prose literature -- Women authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English prose literature -- Women authors.
Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Women.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: 9780748694884 0748694889 (OCoLC)936009444
ISBN 9780748694891 (electronic book)
0748694897 (electronic book)
9780748694884
0748694889