National Heroes British Cinema and 80S - Softcover

Walker, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0245543708 ISBN 13: 9780245543708

Publisher: General Distribution@services, 1986

About this title

About the Author

Alexander Walker is the author of over twenty books about the cinema and its stars, including bestselling biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Peter Sellers and Audrey Hepburn. He has also written standard works on the coming of the Talkies, a monograph on Stanley Kubrick, and the fullest account to date of the British film industr from 1960 to 1985. He has been the London "Evening Standard's" influential film critic since 1960 and has been named "Critic of the Year" three times in the British Press Awards. A prolific broadcaster on television and radio, he wrote and narrated four series of "Film Star" for the BBC. Alexander Walker was born in Ireland, and educated there, on the Continent and in the United States.

Review

For four decades, Alexander Walker was Britain’s leading film critic and historian, named Critic of the Year three times in the British Press Awards. In this classic trilogy, he gives us an eloquent, witty, thoroughly uncompromising history of the modern British film industry.

Edition details

• Publisher: General Distribution@services
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0245543708
• ISBN 13: 9780245543708
• Binding: Paperback