Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Cultural History, University of Lancaster. His fine books on Cinema include 'The Unknown 1930s' and, with Anthony Aldgate, 'Britain Can Take It: British Cinema in the Second World War'. Tauris. He is General Editor of Tauris' 'Cinema and Society series'.
'Jeffrey Richards is admirably equipped to look at the forces shaping the British film industry in the 1930s and to interpret sympathetically a body of films traditionally mocked for their class-bound attitudes... he is full of original insights and illuminating comparisons.' - Philip French, 'Observer'; 'For those with an interest in British Cinema such an enthusiastic and knowledgeable book is a godsend.' - Robert Murphy, 'Sight and Sound'