Anthony Asquith

This is the only sustained critical study of Asquith It covers a range of contextual material on British cinema in various stages of its history - the silent era, the 1930s, the war and post-war period Asquith made a significant contribution to wartime British cinema, and was responsible for the definitive adaptation of Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest (1951) The book deals with a number of issues in Film Studies, art versus popular cinema, middlebrow art, genre cinema, notions of national cinema, the theatre/film relationship, and 'international' or 'mid-Atlantic' film