‘They Came to a City’ for a Vision of Utopia
J. B. Priestley's sense of social conscience permeates every frame of They Came to a City.
Lee Broughton
Lee Broughton is a freelance writer, critic, film programmer and educator. His work on film and the media has appeared in an assortment of edited collections, trade publications and journals. His books include 'The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the Other in Film' (I.B. Tauris, 2016), 'Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained' (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) and 'Reframing Cult Westerns: From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful Eight' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). You can find Lee on Twitter @LeeVanBee
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