"Enter the dream-house" : evaluating the role of English cinemas in public emotion, spatial appropriation, and notions of modernity, c.1930-1960

This thesis asserts the importance of cinemas as influential sites of public emotion within mid-twentieth-century England. It argues that, as institutions, they offered much more than a recreational experience, allowing the formation of emotional communities within an environment which, on an affect...

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Main Author: Jones, James
Published: University of Sussex 2018
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.767042