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  • A new genre for television?

    Creativity in historical drama documentary

    by Justin Hardy ...
    In A New Genre for Television?, filmmaker Justin Hardy argues the dramatised history documentaries broadcast by British public service channels in the 2000s constituted a distinct television genre. Offering a vital distinction between docudramas and drama documentaries, Hardy contributes to the field of television history through exclusive interviews with key figures from BBC and Channel 4 – many ... Read more

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  • The Filmmaker as Historian

    The Age of Liberal Revolution on Screen

    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the potential of audiovisual accounts of the past as a form of history making and dismisses the view of academic historians that history films are of no value. While this may be true of most, whether Hollywood features or television documentaries, this is not invariably so. As evidence, the book examines a mix of recent costume dramas and presenter-led documentaries dealing with ... Read more

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  • In the Valley of Mist

    Kashmir: One Family In A Changing World

    by Justine Hardy ...
    A personal, moving, and vibrant picture of one of the most beautiful and troubled places in the world, described through the experiences of one family, whose fortunes have changed dramatically with those of the region.If there is a paradise on earth, it is definitely here, here and only here," said the early seventeenth-century Mughal Emperor Jehangir when describing the Kashmir Valley. But for ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Superalloys 2020

    Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Superalloys

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The 14th International Symposium on Superalloys (Superalloys 2020) highlights technologies for lifecycle improvement of superalloys. In addition to the traditional focus areas of alloy development, processing, mechanical behavior, coatings, and environmental effects, this volume includes contributions from academia, supply chain, and product-user members of the superalloy community that highlight ... Read more

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  • Evil Old Men: Visible Vs Invisible

    Evil Old Men : Visible Vs Invisible addresses the human condition, perspectives, philosophy, religion, politics, opportunity, and crime in an open and simple manner that anyone can understand setting the foundation for the next three books in the Evil Old Men series. The purpose of the book is to make the reader more worldly using a conversation with a visiting God to represent and misrepresent ... Read more

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  • Children of The Wicker Man

    The True Story Behind One of the Most Remarkable Films Ever Made

    Justin has always been conflicted over the exalted claims made about The Wicker Man, his father's magnum opus: for him, the film destroyed his family. He has no photographs of Robin Hardy in his house. His brother Dominic, whom Robin abandoned as a baby, has been more distanced. Their father's film is a set of fragmented stories: benighted production, brutal editing, critical reception, financial ... Read more

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  • Danse, enfermement et corps résilients | Dance, Confinement and Resilient Bodies

    Series series Santé et société
    La danse offre un espace-temps qui permet de regarder, étudier et comprendre l’humanité. Elle dévoile des corps, avec leurs blessures mais aussi leurs forces. La danse permet de penser | panser différemment et, ainsi, d’ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives. Cet ouvrage s’adresse aux acteurs appartenant aux différents milieux d’intervention et de recherche, d’enseignement et de formation, de même qu ... Read more

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  • British Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Charles Barr ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial - often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers. In this Very Short Introduction, Charles Barr considers films and filmmakers, and studios ... Read more

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  • British Historical Cinema

    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

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  • Bestsellers

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    'I rejoice', said Doctor Johnson, 'to concur with the Common Reader.' For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an engaging look through the lists to reveal what we have been reading - and why. John Sutherland shows that bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Irish National Cinema

    by Ruth Barton ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    From the international successes of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, to the smaller productions of the new generation of Irish filmmakers, this book explores questions of nationalism, gender identities, the representation of the Troubles and of Irish history as well as cinema's response to the so-called Celtic Tiger and its aftermath.Irish National Cinema argues that in order to understand the unique ... Read more

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