The Magic Screen
eBook - PDF

The Magic Screen

A History of Regent Street Cinema

  1. 190 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Magic Screen

A History of Regent Street Cinema

About this book

The story of the (now restored) Regent Street Cinema is the fourth volume exploring the University of Westminster's long and diverse history. This multi-authored volume tells its history from architectural, educational, legal and cinematic perspectives and is richly illustrated throughout with images from the University of Westminster archive.

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Yes, you can access The Magic Screen by Joost Hunningher,Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas,Guy Osborn,Ro Spankie in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword by Professor Geoff Petts, Vice-Chancellor
  4. Acknowledgements and conventions
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Institutional name changes
  7. List of illustrations
  8. Map showing similar establishments in the vicinity of the Royal Polytechnic Institution in the nineteenth century
  9. Chapter 1: Introduction
  10. Chapter 2: The ā€˜Old Cinemaā€™: a dissolving view
  11. Chapter 3: The legal history of the Old Cinema: from ā€˜disorderly houseā€™ to high-class cinematograph
  12. Chapter 4: Now showing at 309 Regent Street ā€“ Ghosts on ā€˜Our Magic Screenā€™
  13. Map showing cinemas in the West End of London in 2015
  14. Afterword: reviving the birthplace of British cinema
  15. Contributors
  16. Picture acknowledgements
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index