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Material relations tells the story of nineteenth and early twentieth century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods they prized. By opening the doors of the house, the book sheds new light on aspects of family life including love, marriage, sex, childhood and death. -- .

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Material relations tells the story of nineteenth and early twentieth century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods they prized. By opening the doors of the house, the book sheds new light on aspects of family life including love, marriage, sex, childhood and death. -- .

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Focusing on developments in the visual arts over the last 80 years but drawing extensively on historical precedents, this book shows that Marxism is far subtler than is commonly assumed.

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Focusing on developments in the visual arts over the last 80 years but drawing extensively on historical precedents, this book shows that Marxism is far subtler than is commonly assumed.

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A comprehensive and informed analysis explores the startlingly diverse and sophisticated fine arts in the Middle Ages.

Materials, Methods, and Masterpieces of Medieval Art provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the work done by artists in western Europe during the Middle Ages.

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Analyses images of the maternal and pregnant body in historical art -- .

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The parallel lives of two compelling and competitive artists and their recurrent engagements with desire and mortality

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Sets out to provide a profile of Maureen O'Sullivan. Following brief biographical information, her career is examined through listings and reviews of her appearances on screen, stage, television and radio. The book also includes two short stories written by the actress herself.

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Maureen Stapleton is recognized as a leading star of stage, screen and television. Few actors have been so successful in all media.

Maureen Stapleton: A Bio-Bibliography is the first book dedicated to the career of this consummate actress.

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Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form.

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Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Elvis's death, an intimate memoir of a friendship with the King of Rock n' Roll - from late-night parties at Graceland to the bright lights of Hollywood sets and glittering stages of Vegas.

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The incredible, moving and hilarious story of Cheeta the Chimp, simian star of the big screen, on a behind-the-scenes romp through the golden years of Hollywood.

As heard on Radio 4, starring Jon Malcovich and Julian Sands.

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Offers an overview of the most influential and notorious media scandals, from newspaper publisher John Paul Zenger's groundbreaking 1735 trial for 'printing and publishing false, scandalous, malicious and seditious statements' to Dr Phil McGraw's 2008 thwarted attempt to force his television cameras inside Britney Spears' hospital room.

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An introduction to the medieval cathedral, those churches that are regarded as the greatest achievements of medieval architecture.

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David O. Selznick was infamous for his impassioned, eloquent, witty and sometimes raging memos to directors, writers, stars and studio executives, which have become almost as famous as his films. Collected here, they stand as an illuminating look at the movie business.

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Taking as its focus memorials of the World War I in Britain, this book studies public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective expression.

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Taking as its focus memorials of the World War I in Britain, this book studies public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective expression.

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In the depths of the Depression, out of the crowded tenements of New York and Cleveland, the comic book superhero leapt into being. This book portrays how the immigrant experience and an outsider mentality shaped the vision of the make-believe hero. It demonstrates how the creators of the superheroes established their place in modern imagination.

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Moves beyond a focus on gothic machinery and adaptations of literary gothic to consider television gothic in light of recent scholarship on the mode itself. -- .

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Menkaure's Mathematical Masterpiece explores how the geometrics and measurements used by the Egyptians in Menkaure's pyramid relate to each other through square roots, squares, inverses, multiples and divisions of one number and are tightly related to measurements of the Great Pyramid, the equator and latitude.

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A widely acclaimed reassessment of the remarkable life, art, struggles, and death of an American icon, from the celebrated author of Holler If You Hear Me.

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This book interprets the later murals of the Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros in light of his Marxist internationalism.

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Provides close readings of works by internationally renowned artists, including Rina Banerjee, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Pat Ward Williams and Bharti Kher