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The Magic Screen: A History of Regent Street Cinema

Joost Hunningher, Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas, Guy Osborn and Ro Spankie
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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.
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword by Professor Geoff Petts, Vice-Chancellor
  • Acknowledgements and conventions
  • Abbreviations
  • Institutional name changes
  • List of illustrations
  • Map showing similar establishments in the vicinity of the Royal Polytechnic Institution in the nineteenth century
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: The ‘Old Cinema’: a dissolving view
  • Chapter 3: The legal history of the Old Cinema: from ‘disorderly house’ to high-class cinematograph
  • Chapter 4: Now showing at 309 Regent Street – Ghosts on ‘Our Magic Screen’
  • Map showing cinemas in the West End of London in 2015
  • Afterword: reviving the birthplace of British cinema
  • Contributors
  • Picture acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Published: 2015
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-9576124-6-4 (paperback)
Series
  • The History of University of Westminster
Subject
  • Local History: London - Westminster
  • Sociology of Education
  • History of Education
  • History of Cinema
  • Film Studies
  • Architecture
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