The History and Social Significance of Motion Pictures in South Africa 1895-1940 | Thelma Gutsche
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Product details
Author: Thelma Gutsche
Publisher: Howard Timmins (1972)
Edition: Limited Edition 580/1000
ISBN-10: 0869780042
ISBN-13: 9780869780046
Condition: Book Condition: Good-Very Good. Red cloth cover with black lettering on the spine. Some light edgewear to boards, small chip to tail of spine, small stains to top and bottom edges of textblock, and slight bowing to boards. Else a clean, tightly bound copy.
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Rubbing, edgewear ad small open and closed tears.
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 404
Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.5 x 3 cm
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by Thelma Gutsche
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Copy of the actor, musician and chef Lochner de Kock, with his blind stamp to front endpaper, and signature to limitation page.
Accepted for the degree of Ph.D by the University of Cape Town in 1946, this thesis traces the appearance and widespread use and distribution of films (from the first peepshows to talkies) against the socio-economic background of the time and also traces the parallel development of other media - music, drama, vaudeville, the circus and newer forms such as the Radio.
Primarily academic in character, the work is massively documented and indexed, but enlivened for the less serious student by fascinating footnotes and amusing anecdotes of the early tribulations of the nascent entertainment industry.