Pinter, Authorship and Entrepreneurship In 1960S British Cinema: The Economics of The Quiller Memorandum.

This article uses primary sources to evaluate how Harold Pinter's screenwriting for the film The Quiller Memorandum (1966) operated in the business context of film production in Britain. In the mid-1960s, British cinema both claimed forms of national distinctiveness and also sought internationalizat...

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Publicado en:Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 533 - 551
Autor principal: Bignell, Jonathan
Formato: Film/TV Criticism and Review
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2020
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