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      • 'The Americanisation of England’ Anti- American sentiment and the arrival of the Talkies' 

        Porter, Laraine (Presentation)
        The arrival of synchronised sound films in Britain between 1928 and 1930 gave a boost to the anti-American sentiment that had been bubbling under the surface for some time. Hollywood films had dominated the British box ...
      • British comedy cinema 

        Hunter, I. Q.; Porter, Laraine (Book)
      • A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, UK, 1929) 

        Porter, Laraine (Presentation)
        A presentation prior to a public screening at the MacRobert's Arts Centre at the University of Stirling as part of the British Silent Cinema and the Transition to Sound symposium 23-24 May 2016
      • '"The Film Gone Male:" women and the transition to sound in the British film industry 1929-1932' 

        Porter, Laraine (Article)
        Taking its cue from Dorothy Richardson’s essay, ‘The Film Gone Male’ written for the critical, Left-wing British film publication Close Up in 1932, this article looks at women working in the British film industry during ...
      • Fleapits and Picture Palaces 

        Jones, Matthew; Chibnall, S.; Porter, Laraine (Video)
        This 25-minute documentary, produced collaborative by members of the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, explores the history of cinema-going in Leicester and its surrounding area. Connecting trends in ...
      • From Slapstick to Satire: British Comedy Cinema Before 1930 

        Porter, Laraine (Book chapter)
      • Gendered Patterns of Discrimination in the Creative Industries 

        Ball, Vicky; Porter, Laraine (Article)
      • ‘Have You a Happy Voice?’ Women’s voices and the talkie revolution in Britain 1929-1932 

        Porter, Laraine (Article)
      • ’How Shall We Look Again'?: Revisiting the Archive in British Silent Film and the Great War 

        Porter, Laraine; Dixon, B. (Book chapter)
      • Introduction: British Cinema History 

        Hunter, I. Q.; Porter, Laraine; Smith, Justin (Book chapter)
        Book chapter.
      • Leicester Cinema History 

        Jones, Matthew; Chibnall, S.; Ercole, Pier; Porter, Laraine; Hanson, Stuart; Acciari, Monia (Other)
        This public exhibition, housed in the DMU Heritage Centre, ran from February to May 2017. It charted the development, decline and resurgence of Leicester's cinema culture through a large map displaying the cinemas within ...
      • "The “Missing Muscle”: Attitudes to Women Working in Cinema and Music 1910 to 1930 

        Porter, Laraine (Article)
        In the 1900s as Edwardian women musicians moved from music teaching into public performance, cinemas offered a safe place: out of the spotlight and in the relative anonymity of the darkened auditorium. The rapid growth in ...
      • Music, gender and the feminisation of British silent cinema 1909-1929 

        Porter, Laraine (Book chapter)
      • Okay for Sound? The reception of the early Talkies in Britain 

        Porter, Laraine (Presentation)
        A review of the various ways in which early sound films were received in Britain from the popular press, to fan magazines, literary critics, public intellectuals and modernist writers like Dorothy Richardson. The reception ...
      • Okay for Sound? The reception of the Talkies in Britain 1928-1932 

        Porter, Laraine (Article)
        The arrival of the talkies in Britain evoked mixed responses. While popular audiences enthusiastically embraced Hollywood musicals like the Al Jolson hit The Singing Fool (1928), the literati were often scathing of ...
      • The problem of the female voice: Women working in the transition between silent and sound film in Britain 

        Porter, Laraine (Presentation)
        This presentation will look at the ways in which women in the British film industry contributed to the transition between silent and sound cinema. It will look at issues that affected their roles both in front of, and ...
      • The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History 

        Hunter, I. Q.; Porter, Laraine; Smith, Justin (Book)
        Edited collection on British cinema history
      • Routledge Companion to British Cinema History 

        Hunter, I. Q.; Porter, Laraine; Smith, Justin (Book)
        A 39-chapter edited volume that offers a comprehensive and revisionist overview of British cinema as both a commercial entertainment industry and a series of institutions centred on economics, funding and relations to ...
      • Scene-stealing. Sources for British cinema before 1930 

        Burton, Alan; Porter, Laraine (Book)
      • The showman, the spectacle and the two minute silence: performing British cinema before 1930 

        Burton, Alan; Porter, Laraine (Book)

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