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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “amy sargeant”
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  • The Servant

    by Amy Sargeant ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Amy Sargeant's compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master-servant relationship, from Shakespeare to Cervantes, Henry James, Dorothy L. Sayers and P.G. Wodehouse. Sargeant points out that while many of these relationships are played for comic effect, that of the 'young master' Tony ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • British Historical Cinema

    by Claire Monk, Amy Sargeant ...
    Series series British Popular Cinema
    Films recreating or addressing 'the past' - recent or distant, actual or imagined - have been a mainstay of British cinema since the silent era. From Elizabeth to Carry On Up The Khyber, and from the heritage-film debate to issues of authenticity and questions of genre, British Historical Cinema explores the ways in which British films have represented the past on screen, the issues they raise and ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • British Cinema

    A Critical and Interpretive History

    by Amy Sargeant ...
    Although new writing and research on British cinema has burgeoned over the last fifteen years, there has been a continued lack of single-authored books providing a coherent overview to this fascinating and elusive national cinema. Amy Sargeant's personal and entertaining history of British cinema aims to fill this gap. With its insightful decade-by-decade analysis, British Cinema is brought alive ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • Directory of World Cinema: Britain

    Edited by Emma Bell, Neil Mitchell ...
    Bringing to mind rockers and royals, Buckingham Palace and the Scottish Highlands, Britain holds a special interest for international audiences who have flocked in recent years to quality exports like Fish Tank, Trainspotting and The King's Speech. A series of essays and articles exploring the definitive films of Great Britain, this addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Fifty Key British Films

    Edited by Sarah Barrow, John White ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    In Fifty Key British Films, Britain's best known films such as Clockwork Orange, The Full Monty and Goldfinger are scrutinised for their outstanding ability to articulate the issues of the time. This is essential reading for anyone interested in quality, cult film. ... Read more

    $54.95 CAD

  • British Women's Cinema

    Edited by Melanie Bell, Melanie Williams ...
    Series series British Popular Cinema
    British Women’s Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British ‘chick flick’. ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Lives in Writing

    by David Lodge ...
    A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary.In these thoughtful and enlightening essays David Lodge considers some particularly interesting examples of life ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Realism and Tinsel

    Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48

    by Robert Murphy ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    With themes ranging from passion and romance to murder and psychological disturbance, popular British film in the 1940s found little favour with the critics, but provided thrills and entertainment for millions of people during a time of austerity and danger. Realism and Tinsel looks beyond the established histories of Ealing Comedies and realist classics to excavate a rich but neglected tradition ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Richard Burton Diaries

    by Richard Burton ...

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

    Edited by Martin Priestman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on ... Read more

    Was $37.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • Writing Home

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gieldgud. His television series 'Talking Heads' ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • British National Cinema

    by Sarah Street ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    The first substantial overview of the British film industry with emphasis on its genres, stars, and socioeconomic context, British National Cinema by Sarah Street is an important title in Routledge's new National Cinemas series. British National Cinema synthesizes years of scholarship on British film while incorporating the author' fresh perspective and research. Street divides the study of ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD