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Theatre, Community, and Civic Engagement in Jacobean London
University of Iowa Press 2011; US$ 59.95Taking to heart Thomas Heywood’s claim that plays “persuade men to humanity and good life, instruct them in civility and good manners, showing them the fruits of honesty, and the end of villainy,” Mark Bayer’s captivating new study argues that the early modern London theatre was an important community institution whose... more...
New Zealand Film and Television
Intellect 2011; US$ 20.00This title is authored by well known researchers and authors in the field. Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of significant expectation, achievement, and cultural influence.... more...
John Gielgud
Bloomsbury Publishing 2011; US$ 39.00In his lifetime Gielgud was acclaimed as the finest classical actor of the twentieth century and Jonathan Croalls biography from 2000 was instantly recognised by critics as a masterful achievement, one that was unlikely to be surpassed ( Sunday Telegraph ). Since that time however a considerable amount of new material has come to... more...
Alastair Sim
The History Press 2011; US$ 14.57Alastair sim was an energetic character both on and off the screen. His idiosyncratic style of acting in films such as 'The Belles of St Trinian's' endeared him to a cinema-going audience desperate to escape the day-to-day dreariness of an invasive, bureaucratic post-war Britain. In private, he was a curiously contradictory character, prejudiced and... more...
Audrey Hepburn
Oldcastle Books 2011; US$ 7.28The Pocket Essential Audrey Hepburn looks at Audrey’s early life growing up in Holland during the war. Her father was a nazi sympathiser and her mother of Dutch aristocracy and this brought about pressures and experiences that Audrey would carry with her throughout her life. Wartime starvation was responsible for her gamin’ appearance.... more...
Dramatists Sourcebook
Theatre Communications Group 2011; US$ 24.95The fully updated new edition of this indispensable guide. more...
Emma Watson
John Blake 2011; US$ 9.99A biography of the actress behind the role of Hermione Granger A detailed insight into Emma Watson's career, the highs and lows of being a child star, and how she is moving on from Harry Potter balancing the world of fashion with her academic studies. Emma shot to fame at just 10 years old, when she took the role of Hermione Granger in the... more...
Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 100.00The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art. more...
American Theater in the Culture of the Cold War
University of Iowa Press 2005; US$ 29.95In this groundbreaking study, Bruce McConachie uses the primary metaphor of containment—what happens when we categorize a play, a television show, or anything we view as having an inside, an outside, and a boundary between the two—as the dominant metaphor of cold war theatergoing. Drawing on the cognitive psychology and linguistics of... more...
Enfant Terrible!
NYU Press 2002; US$ 75.00The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing. Enfant Terrible! Jerry Lewis in American Film... more...









