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1960s The 1960s marked yet another period of transition in British cinema. Many of the great wartime film studios had collapsed and been replaced by American studios. American corporations began investing in British studios, keeping the domestic industry afloat.
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Apr 19, 2021 · There has been nothing quite like the lockdown of 2020-21 in the history of cinema, but it echoes what happened to art cinemas during World War II. In Britain, all cinemas were ordered closed at the outbreak in September 1939 – then were allowed to reopen within the month.
Apr 14, 2020 · A case study of twentieth-century Belfast highlights the resilience of cinemas, whose proprietors have successfully negotiated pandemics and civil conflict to provide entertainment for their patrons — at a time when they perhaps needed it most.
Jun 30, 2021 · Sam Manning’s Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65 is a much-needed contribution to the growing literature that places British cinema-going and cinema within broader social, cultural, political, economic, and spatial contexts.
Jun 21, 2019 · I have read that at the height of their popularity, there would have been over 60 cinemas active in Leeds. During the mid to late 20 th century, many of these became bingo halls and by the 1980s, as annual cinema admissions in the UK slumped to an all-time low, a lot of cinemas closed down for good.
Jan 10, 2017 · Cinema attendance in UK peaked in 1946 at 1.64 billion admissions - but fell dramatically to just 54 million in 1983. Reasons for fall in cinema and also the mini-revival which has occured since.
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Mar 16, 2023 · This book had its origins in a research project entitled ‘Cultural Memory and British Cinema Going of the 1960s’ which ran from January 2013 to December 2015 and was funded by the AHRC. The intenti...
