I don’t often go to the BFI, and if I’m honest, it’s because I find the audiences there off-putting. Not just the famous NFT2 front row of elderly bag-rustling men, some of whom seem to have forgotten about soap and water, but also because across the whole auditorium there seems to be a barely … Continue reading Assaults in the Cinema
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)
