Description
About the Author
ADRIAN WRIGHT is a performer, novelist and writer. His previous books with Boydell include A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-War British Musical (2010), West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London (2012) and Must Close Saturday: The Decline and Fall of the British Musical Flop (2017). He has previously written on the subject of film music in his biography of William Alwyn, The Innumerable Dance (2008), and his fiction includes the Francis and Gordon Jones Mysteries series: The Voice of Doom, The Coming Day and Forget Me Not.
Reviews
Adrian Wright's excellent book is devoted to an area of British film history that has sometimes been loftily dismissed or simply fallen through the cracks...in a time of pandemic, reading a book entitled Cheer Up! about films which were themselves produced during the Depression and then the second world war is oddly uplifting. Wright's deep knowledge of and obvious affection for his subject does not blind him to the shortcomings of some of what was on offer, and one of the chief pleasures here is his deadpan dismissal of those found wanting. * SPECTATOR *
Adrian Wright's 379 page tome has certainly cheered me up. It is a book which, since it arrived, I have been continually been dipping into, and once dipped, have continued reading for hours followed by watching one of the films I have read about, or searching out recordings of the various songs. It is invaluable for anyone who has an interest in films, musicals and operetta, and the research which must have been undertaken is very commendable.Very highly recommended - especially at the modest asking price of GBP30.00! * OPERETTA RESEARCH CENTER *
Book Information
ISBN 9781783274994
Author Adrian Wright
Format Hardback
Page Count 395
Imprint The Boydell Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g