Name: Idols of the Odeons: Post-War British Film Stardom
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Author: Roberts, Andrew
ISBN: 9781526147035

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Andrew Roberts

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

344

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.66 kg.

ISBN13

9781526147035

Edition No.

Synopsis "Idols of the Odeons: Post-War British Film Stardom"

Idols of the Odeons examines British film stardom in the post-war era, a time when Hollywood movies were increasingly supplanting the Pinewood/Elstree studio system. The book encompasses the careers of sixteen actors, including Stanley Baker, Diana Dors, Norman Wisdom, Hattie Jacques, Peter Finch and Peter Sellers. Such extremely diverse careers provide the opportunity to explore overlooked films, in addition to examining how the term 'star' could apply to a stalwart leading man, a Variety comic, a self-created 'Vamp' and a character actor. Above all, this is a book that celebrates, with idiosyncratic humour and warmth, how these actors accomplished much of their best work during the transitional period between the Rank/ABPC roster of stars and the US domination of the British film industry.

Andrew Roberts

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Andrew Roberts, historiador y periodista, es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y de la Royal Society of Arts. Forma parte, asimismo, del Napoleonic Institute, y es socio honorario de la International Churchill Society. Una vida (2016) ganó el Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon y el Los Angeles Times Biography Prize.

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