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Item Details
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SHEPPERTON BABYLON
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| By: |
Matthew Sweet |
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Paperback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571212972 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571212972 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
17 February, 2005 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Synopsis: |
If you thought the British film industry was a genteel, conservative sort of business, then think again. This is a history of home-grown movies that includes the scandals, the suicides, the immolations and the contract killings - the product of thousands of conversations with veteran film-makers. Here you'll meet the actress who remembers the night in 1920 when her father cheated her out of a Hollywood contract; the screenwriter who, one night in 1924, watched his film idols snort cocaine from an illuminated glass dance floor on the bank of the Thames at Maidenhead; the movie columnist of the 1930s whose sense of job satisfaction increased with every writ that landed on her editor's desk; the model who escaped Soho's gangsters to become the queen of the nudie flicks; the genteel Scottish comedienne who, at the age of fifty-five, reinvented herself as a star of exploitation cinema, and fondly remembers 'the one where I drilled in people's heads and ate their brains'. A Babel of voices from the lost worlds of British cinema. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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