The Book of the City of Ladies (Häftad)
avChristine de Pizan, Earl Jeffrey Richards, Natalie Zemon Davis
ISBN: 9780892552306 - UTGIVEN: 1998-06Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 in Venice. Her family moved to Paris three years later when her father was appointed court astrologer to King Charles V. Close ties to the royal court and her father's encouragement enabled Christine to obtain a good education, unusual for women of her time. At th[...]
Britain Can Take it (Häftad)
avTony Aldgate, Jeffrey Richards
ISBN: 9781845114459 - UTGIVEN: 200710At the outbreak of the Second World War, all cinemas in Britain were closed. Ten days later, they were opened again as a valuable way of boosting morale and a principal source of recreation for the nation at war. Feature films were not just escapist entertainment; they provided instruction and infor[...]
Hollywood's Ancient Worlds (Inbunden)
avJeffrey Richards
ISBN: 9781847250070 - UTGIVEN: 2008-09This book offers a new, full analysis of the Ancient World epic and how this film genre continues to comment on modern-day issues.Few genres have been subject to such critical scorn as the Ancient World epic. Yet they have regularly achieved huge box office success. This book tells the history of th[...]
The Age of the Dream Palace (Häftad)
avJeffrey Richards
ISBN: 9781848851221 - UTGIVEN: 2009-12The period between the two world wars is often named 'the golden age of the cinema' in Britain. This definitive and entertaining book on the cinema and cinema-goers of the era is herewith reissued with a new Introduction. Jeffrey Richards, described by Philip French as 'a shrewd critic, a compulsive[...]
Best of British (Häftad)
avJeffrey Richards, Anthony Aldgate
ISBN: 9781860642883 - UTGIVEN: 199903This is a revised and expanded edition of the classic book on film history. The authors examine how aspects of British society are reflected in and shaped by cinema. Films studied include, among others, "Sanders of the River, A Canterbury Tale, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Guinea Pig, Th[...]
The Oxford Handbook of American Drama (Inbunden)
avJeffrey H. (EDT) Richards, Heather S. (CON) Nathans, Jeffrey H. (EDT) Richards
ISBN: 9780199731497 - UTGIVEN: 2014-01This ambitious collection of essays covers American drama in its entirety-from its inception in colonial America, through its many incarnations in the nineteenth century, to its zenith in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Differentiating itself from other treatments of the genre, the [...]
Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture (Inbunden)
avAnselm (EDT) Heinrich, Katherine (EDT) Newey, Jeffrey (EDT) Richards
ISBN: 9780230200593 - UTGIVEN: 2009-05This book brings together original research in theatre and the visual arts, around the common object of a revaluation of the intersections of the theatre and visual culture. Contributors are drawn from a stimulating mix of highly-esteemed and established scholars (such as Shearer West, Jim Davis, Ri[...]
