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The Dude Abides
Zondervan 2009; US$ 11.99Join award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani as she explores the serious existential questions raised in the movies of the wildly popular and always irreverent Coen brothers. Coen fans and film lovers will appreciate Falsani's unique blend of contemporary insight and spiritual discernment that is both entertaining and illuminating. more...
The Profession of the Playwright
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 46.00This book examines the working world of the playwright in nineteenth-century Britain. more...
Poetry in a Divided World
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 27.00This book comprises four lectures presented at Trinity College in 1985 concerned with the function and status of poetry in the twentieth century. more...
A Companion to Henslowe's Diary
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 36.00A thorough analysis of Philip Henslowe's diary which provides a unique source of information on Elizabethan repertory theatre. more...
Peckinpah's Tragic Westerns
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 40.00The work of Sam Peckinpah represents a high point in American cinema. This text is the first theoretical and critical attempt to place Peckinpah within the 2,000-year-old tradition of western tragedy. The tradition, enfolding the Greeks, Shakespeare and modern tragedians, is represented in Peckinpah's art in numerous ways, and the fact that he... more...
Anything Goes
Michael O' Mara Books 2009; US$ 9.99Traces the life and career of John Barrowman, from his Glaswegian childhood and American adolescence to his first big break starring alongside Elaine Paige in "Anything Goes". more...
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities provides an ideal starting point for understanding gender in the novels of this period. It explores the place of fiction in constructing gender identity within society at large, considering Madame Bovary , Portrait of a Lady and The Woman in White . The book continues with a consideration of the novel... more...
Letters to a Young Actor
Basic Books 2009; US$ 14.95Inspiration and guidance for struggling performers more...
Atomic Postcards
Intellect 2011; US$ 20.00Atomic postcards played an important role in creating and disseminating a public image of nuclear power. Presenting small-scale images of test explosions, power plants, fallout shelters, and long-range missiles, the cards were produced for mass audiences in China, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan and link the multilayered geographies... more...
Historical Comedy On Screen
Intellect 2011; US$ 20.00In 1893, Friedrich Engels branded history 'the cruelest goddess of all.' This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless playground of inevitability rather than a droll world of possibilities. There are few places this is more evident than in historical cinema which tends... more...









