Merchant-Ivory

Merchant-Ivory
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a respected British film company started by the ↑producer Ismail Merchant (1936- ) and the ↑director James Ivory (1928- ). Many of their films, such as A Room with a View (1983), Howards End (1991), and The Remains of the Day (1992), are based on well-known works of English literature, and they are often about the lives of ↑upper class English people in the early 20th century, and about the English class system and its effects on people's behaviour.

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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