<p><strong>`Pursuing his theory in lively style and with examination of a large number of productions, the author has written an unfailingly interesting study, fully documented and concluding with a useful chronology of cinema society through the period.'</strong> - <em>Film Review</em><br /><br /><strong>`Robert Murphy ... has broken new ground, not only in covering the British cinema in the forties as a whole, but in looking beyond the critical orthodoxy ...'</strong> - <em>Eric Braun, The Stage and Television Today</em><br /><br /><strong>`...very well documented, gracefully written, and convincingly argued.'</strong> - <em>Choice</em><br /><br /><strong>`...[a] welcome addition to the impressive `Cinema and Society' series...'</strong> - <em>History Today</em><br /><br /><em>Sight and Sound</em><strong> praised: `... the readiness, indeed eagerness, of Murphy's study to browse along not just the main thoroughfare of 1940s British Cinema ... but also an assortment of back streets: By-Ways for variety and radio stars.'</strong><br /><br /><strong>`Pursuing his theory in lively style and with examination of a large number of productions, the author has written an unfailingly interesting study, fully documented and concluding with a useful chronology of cinema society through the period.'</strong> - <em>Film Review</em><br /><br /><strong>`... elegant and clearly written ...'</strong> - <em>Michael Paris, History Today</em><br /><br /><strong>`Robert Murphy ... has broken new ground, not only in covering the British cinema in the forties as a whole, but in looking beyond the critical orthodoxy ...'</strong> - <em>Eric Braun, The Stage and Television Today</em><br /><br /><strong>`... solidly researched ... a detailed and straightforward account of the hundreds of British films turned out during the period ...'</strong> - <em>J.K.L. Walker, Times Literary Supplement</em></p>