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Author Pettitt, Lance, author

Title The last Bohemian : Brian Desmond Hurst, Irish film, British cinema / Lance Pettitt ; foreword by Mark Cousins
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 330 pages) : illustrations
Series Irish studies
Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Contents Introduction: Fugitive : becoming bohemian in a "cinema astray" -- Formation : Belfast, Gallipoli and the 1920s -- Filmmaker : from avant garde to Elstree: 1934-1939 -- Fame : cinema, wartime and film work in the 1940s -- Finale : adaptation, revival and remnants of empire -- Forgotten : Hurst and the wake of fame -- Found : a critical redemption?
Summary ""The Last Bohemian" is a study of Belfast-born film director Brian Desmond Hurst (1895-1986), who made upwards of thirty films in British film studios from the 1930s to the 1960s. His films helped shape the British cinematic imaginary of an era but, as an Irish bohemian exiled in London, he lived out a complex, imagined connection with 'Ireland' that is captured in his films"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 05, 2023)
Subject Hurst, Brian Desmond.
SUBJECT Hurst, Brian Desmond fast
Subject Motion picture producers and directors -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast -- Biography
Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion pictures
Great Britain
Northern Ireland -- Belfast
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Cousins, Mark, 1965- writer of foreword.
LC no. 2022054094
ISBN 9780815655305
0815655304