Author: Lawrence

I teach Film Studies at King's College London. I'm gonna be posting mainly about film-going in Britain in the early C20th, drawing on my own research activities. Previously I've written on British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years (University of Exeter Press, 2009), The Great War and Popular British Cinema in the 1920s (Palgrave, 2015) and Silent Cinema: Before the Pictures Got Small (Wallflower, 2017)

Wicked: For Good at the Majestic King’s Lynn and the ancient art of foyer promotion

We went to see Wicked: For Good in the Majestic in King’s Lynn last week. The Majestic is a glorious survival from what I guess you might call the ‘golden age’ of cinema going. It was built in 1927 and is still running as an independent. There have been changes of course, the original auditorium … Continue reading Wicked: For Good at the Majestic King’s Lynn and the ancient art of foyer promotion →