St. Pierre examines strategies of representing British music hall performance and the performance of the body in British cinema in the silent era and the sound era. The focus is on films of Fred and Joe Evans, Frank Randle, Will Hay, George Formby,Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Cicely Courtneidge, Jessie Matthews, Norman Evans, Max Miller, Stanley Holloway, Jack Warner, Gracie Fields, and Charles Chaplin. Consideration is given to themes such as war propaganda and gender impersonation.
- ISBN10 1611473993
- ISBN13 9781611473995
- Publish Date 1 June 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 262
- Language English