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Biografisk notat
Trevor Griffiths is Reader in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh. Educated at the University of Oxford, he has carried out research on working-class society in Britain in the early twentieth century, before turning more recently to examine aspects of popular culture. He was Co-Investigator on the three-year AHRC research project, ‘Early Scottish Cinema, 1896-1927’.
This is an excellent book. It provides fascinating evidence of the peculiarities of national cinema, while revealing how cinema managers and their audiences could exert considerable agency in the leisure process. Most of all, it reveals how fruitful the localised study of cinema can be for historians.
- Robert James, University of Portsmouth, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
This is an excellent book. It provides fascinating evidence of the peculiarities of national cinema, while revealing how cinema managers and their audiences could exert considerable agency in the leisure process. Most of all, it reveals how fruitful the localised study of cinema can be for historians.
- Robert James, University of Portsmouth, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland is a hugely impressive, detailed piece of scholarship. It should be recommended not only to Scottish historians but also to cinema historians everywhere, to social and cultural historians, and to those interested in national identity in twentieth century Scotland, and Britain.
- James J. Nott, University of St Andrews, International Review of Scottish Studies
The Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland not only takes Scottish film studies into important new territory, it also offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the broader historical development of cinema exhibition in Britain.
- Duncan Petrie, University of York, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Volume 11, Issue 2-3
This densely researched book meets a number of pressing needs in the field of Scottish and British film studies, but it is also likely to prove a significant resource for a range of other disciplines, not least in its contribution to our understandings of Scottish popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
- Joe Kember, University of Exeter, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies
‘A major contribution to the history of popular culture in Scotland.’
- John Burnett, Review of Scottish Culture
Trevor Griffiths has produced an exceptional monograph...it should be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students of popular culture and film studies, but the value of this book is greater than this. Historians of business, economics, and the inter-war period will find this an extremely useful text that is accessible, very well researched, and set within the political, economic, and socio-cultural context of the years 1896 to 1950.
- Annmarie Hughes, The Economic History Review Vol 67 Issue 2
A fascinating book.
- RICK INSTRELL, The Scotsman
This is an excellent book. It provides fascinating evidence of the peculiarities of national cinema, while revealing how cinema managers and their audiences could exert considerable agency in the leisure process. Most of all, it reveals how fruitful the localised study of cinema can be for historians.
- Robert James, University of Portsmouth, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
This is an excellent book. It provides fascinating evidence of the peculiarities of national cinema, while revealing how cinema managers and their audiences could exert considerable agency in the leisure process. Most of all, it reveals how fruitful the localised study of cinema can be for historians.
- Robert James, University of Portsmouth, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland is a hugely impressive, detailed piece of scholarship. It should be recommended not only to Scottish historians but also to cinema historians everywhere, to social and cultural historians, and to those interested in national identity in twentieth century Scotland, and Britain.
- James J. Nott, University of St Andrews, International Review of Scottish Studies
The Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland not only takes Scottish film studies into important new territory, it also offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the broader historical development of cinema exhibition in Britain.
- Duncan Petrie, University of York, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Volume 11, Issue 2-3
This densely researched book meets a number of pressing needs in the field of Scottish and British film studies, but it is also likely to prove a significant resource for a range of other disciplines, not least in its contribution to our understandings of Scottish popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
- Joe Kember, University of Exeter, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies
‘A major contribution to the history of popular culture in Scotland.’
- John Burnett, Review of Scottish Culture
Trevor Griffiths has produced an exceptional monograph...it should be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students of popular culture and film studies, but the value of this book is greater than this. Historians of business, economics, and the inter-war period will find this an extremely useful text that is accessible, very well researched, and set within the political, economic, and socio-cultural context of the years 1896 to 1950.
- Annmarie Hughes, The Economic History Review Vol 67 Issue 2
A fascinating book.
- RICK INSTRELL, The Scotsman