From the Factory Gate to the ‘Home Talent’Drama: An International Overview of Local Films in the Silent Era

The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 33-48

  Bottomore, Stephen ^a  

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