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  • A Green and Pagan Land

    Myth, Magic and Landscape in British Film and Television

    par David Huckvale ...
    British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Lord Dunsany and even Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows informed later British films and television dramas such as The Owl Service (1969-70), ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Occult Arts of Music

    An Esoteric Survey from Pythagoras to Pop Culture

    par David Huckvale ...
    Occult traditions have inspired musical ingenuity for centuries. From the Pythagorean concept of a music of the spheres to the occult subculture of 20th-century pop and rock, music has often attempted to express mystical states of mind, cosmic harmony, the demonic and the divine--nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the music for films such as The Mephisto Waltz, The Devil Rides Out, Star Trek, Close ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Movie Magick

    The Occult in Film

    par David Huckvale ...
    "Magick" as defined by Aleister Crowley is "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will." This book explores expressions of movie magick in classic occult films like Hammer's adaptation of Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out and modern occult revival movies. These films are inspired by the aesthetics of fin de siecle decadence, the symbolist writings of Villiers de l ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Piano on Film

    par David Huckvale ...
    Since the early days of silent film accompaniment, the piano has played an integral part in the history of cinema. Film's fascination with the piano, both in soundtracks and onscreen as a status symbol and icon of popular romanticism, offers a revealing opportunity to chart the changing perception of the instrument. From Mozart to Elton John, this book surveys the cultural history of the piano ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Terrors of the Flesh

    The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film

    par David Huckvale ...
    The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama. Body horror films have intensified these themes in increasingly graphic terms. The aesthetic of body horror has its origins in the ideas of the Marquis de Sade and the existential philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, all of whom demonstrated that ... En savoir plus

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  • Dirk Bogarde

    Matinee Idol, Art House Star

    par David Huckvale ...
    English actor Dirk Bogarde dominated the films in which he starred. Exploring the tension between his matinee idol appeal and his own closeted sexuality, this book focuses on the wide variety of genres in which he worked, and the highly charged interaction between his life and his roles.Beginning with an expose of gay life in post-war Britain and his relationship with partner/manager, Anthony ... En savoir plus

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  • A Dark and Stormy Oeuvre

    Crime, Magic and Power in the Novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton

    par David Huckvale ...
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton--who coined the terms "the great unwashed" and "the pen is mightier than the sword"--is best remembered for persuading Dickens to change the ending of Great Expectations; but Lord Lytton was a prolific and influential novelist in his own right, inspiring Edgar Allan Poe, H. Rider Haggard and Madame Blavatsky, among others. His radicalism was applauded by William Godwin, the ... En savoir plus

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  • Poe Evermore

    The Legacy in Film, Music and Television

    par David Huckvale ...
    Edgar Allan Poe exerted a profound influence on many aspects of 20th century culture, and continues to inspire composers, filmmakers, writers and artists. Popularly thought of as a "horror" writer, Poe was also a philosophical aesthete, a satirist, a hoaxer, a psychologist and a prophet of the anxieties and preoccupations of the modern world. Alphabetically arranged, this book explores Poe's major ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Hammer Films' Psychological Thrillers, 1950-1972

    par David Huckvale ...
    Hammer Film's is justly famous for Gothic horror but the company also excelled in the psychological thriller. Influenced by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock, Hammer created its own approach to this genre in some of the company's very best films.This book takes a chronological, film-by-film approach to all of Hammer's thrillers. Well-known classics such as Seth Holt's The Nanny (1965) and ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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    Classical Music for Every Day

    As featured in the Telegraph and on Radio 4's Today programme.'A magnificent treasury . . . a fascinating tour de force.' Observer'Year of Wonder is an absolute treat - the most enlightening way to be guided through the year.' Eddie RedmayneClassical music for everyone - an inspirational piece of music for every day of the year, celebrating composers from the medieval era to the pr... ... En savoir plus

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  • Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein

    The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein

    par Jonathan Cott ...
    Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking, and convention-breaking. In November 1989, just a year before his death, Bernstein invited writer ... En savoir plus

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  • Musical Revolutions

    How the Sounds of the Western World Changed

    par Stuart Isacoff ...
    From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history—classical and jazz—all of which forever altered Western culture"A fascinating journey that begins with the origins of musical notation and travels through the centuries reaching all the way to our time.”—Semyon Bychkov, chief conductor and music director of the Czech ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD