Jon H Burrows

Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918

Jathan Burrows

Jonathan Burrows is one of the UKs leading choreographers. He performs around the world, with 43 international tour dates in 2007. He started his career as a ...

A Bertram, the Aegean and Two Virgins: Tales of chaos and confusion from two virgin sailors let loose in the Greek sea

This story is the direct result of me sitting in the Athens airport departure lounge waiting for my flight back to the UK, picking bits of bright green expanded polyurethane adhesive out of my hair and dark brown polyester resin from my beard. I think that the realisation that I had glued my feet in...

A Bertram, the Aegean and Two Virgins: Tales of chaos and confusion from two virgin sailors let loose in the Greek sea by Jon Burrows (2011-02-09)

[(Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918)] [Author: Jon Burrows] published on (January, 2003)

Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918 (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Studies in History)

This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre. Why were so many West End legends such as Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Ellen Terry repea...