Women, food, and families

Politics & Social Sciences

Charles, Nickie

Social Sciences

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Film Theory: An Introduction (Images of Culture)

This popular title had been reprinted nine times since its first publication and is an accessible account of film theory, aimed at both the cinema-goer and the student. 'Film needs theory' said Alan Parker, 'like it needs a scratch on the negative'. This book shows that statement to be invalid, in a series of chapters simply titled Politics, Semiotics, Psychoanalysis, Authorship, Narrative Realism and The Avant-garde.

Film theory: An introduction (Images of culture)

Lapsley, Robert

Humor & Entertainment

Affairs to Remember: The Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes

<p>An analysis of the great Hollywood classic comedy genre from "Bringing up Baby" in the 1930s right up to Dustin Hoffman's "Tootsie", this book also looks at the work of Bob Hope, Mae West and Woody Allen in order to discover the social and sexual dynamics of film comedy. Babington and Evans have also co-authored "Blue Skies and Silver Linings". The book is intended for students of film studies and enthusiasts of American popular culture.</p>

Affairs to remember: The Hollywood comedy of the sexes

Babington, Bruce

Movies

This interdisciplinary study of the early history of the automobile in the USA draws upon elements of urban sociology and historical geography to explore how the motorcar was accepted by an affluent class of society and interpreted as a means of achieving progressive, middle-class objectives. By examining the concerns of progressive American society, the author interprets the motorcar's significance as an instrument which adjusted to spatial discrepancies in order to accelerate the flow of goods and services, and acted as a safety valve for social tensions through personal mobility.

America and the automobile: Technology, reform, and social change

History

Ling, Peter J.

Americas

Jewish-Christian relations since the Second World War (Sherman studies of Judaism in modern times)

Wigoder, Geoffrey

King Lear (Shakespeare in Performance)

Through a study of eight 20th-century stage and screen productions of "King Lear", this book examines the way in which performance and interpretation are bound together. It aims to show how different performances have illuminated the radical contradictions within the text itself.

King Lear (Shakespeare in performance)

Literature & Fiction

Leggatt, Alexander

Dramas & Plays

"But the people's creatures": The philosophical basis of the English Civil War

Sanderson, John

This detailed study of British strategy during the Crimean War, from the Eastern crisis of March 1853 to the Treaty of Paris in May 1856, adopts a maritime perspective. It uses fresh archive material to focus on the fact that the Crimean invasion was solely in order to destroy the Russian fleet and base, not to capture territory. The pivotal role of the British Navy is examined, as well as the manner in which the British fleet, threatening St Petersburg in 1855, forced Russia to accept the allied terms. The text will be of interest to students and historians of strategy, diplomacy and 19th-century war and politics.

The Crimean War: British grand strategy, 1853-56 (War, armed forces, and society)

Lambert, Andrew D.

Players and Performances in the Victorian Theatre

The Victorian theatre was one of "feeling". Whatever the genre, melodrama or farce, drawing-room comedy or Shakespeare, actors developed a sign-system of gestures and stage-business in order to convey the passion and pathos of their roles. This survey looks at different theatrical genres to reveal the range of Victorian actors, and to show how changes in repertoire, organization and the social function of entertainment effected the "purpose of their playing". Evidence is drawn from handbooks, reviews, biographies and treatises on the psychology, physiology and aesthetics of acting, to reveal both general trends and the effect of specific performances. Seven productions, with Irving, Macready, Kean, Terry and many others, have been chosen and are analyzed to illustrate different aspects of the actor's art.

Players and performances in the Victorian theatre

Taylor, George

History & Criticism

This volume offers a selection of criticism from Geoffrey Hartman's work of the mid 1960s through Marxist, historicist, structuralist and post-structuralist readings, all of which reflect the implications of the cultural and political changes in the course of the late 18th and 19th centuries. The introduction aims to clarify the issues and sets the critical extracts in context. Each extract has a brief explanatory endnote there is an essay suggesting further reading.

Wordsworth: Romantic poetry and revolution politics

Williams,John

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