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Bringing together theatre history and the interests of cultural criticism and performance theory, Dawson traces the Anglo-American acting tradition and provides an account of the interpretative problems associated with texts, character, design, and the production of meaning.

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He launches this work with the first Hamlet portrayal, that of Richard Burbage, and then, in chronological order, describes and analyzes the Hamlets of the other actors who make up the great tradition of English-language Shakespeare acting.

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The second edition of Peter Hutchingss landmark work on British horror cinema, featuring later writings by Hutchings and a new introduction by film historian Johnny Walker.

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This book outlines the film achievements in the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, East Germany, Romania, and Bulgaria, and how their people responded to the films they were allowed to see.

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One of the most significant contributors to the early years of the motion picture industry, Harold Lloyd was also a shrewd businessman and became the wealthiest man in Hollywood at the peak of his career.

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A biography of one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. It offers fresh insights into his life and work, concentrating on the themes, patterns, relationships, ideas and language common to his life and creative output.

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Harold Pinter is one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. This biography offers insights into his life and work, focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships, ideas and language common to his life and creative output.

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A thematic collection of critical essays on Harold Pinter's theatrical works published alongside new interviews with contemporary theatre practitioners

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This bookexamines the interactions between ghosts and families in three recent horror films from the Spanish-speaking world. It explores the ways in which horror films can serve to reinscribe or subvert hegemonic epistemologies of race and sexuality by manipulating the temporal framework in which intersectional subjectivities are articulated.

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Providing a historical account of cinema in Nigeria, this book explores the transcultural transfer of media from India to Africa in Hausa cinema

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A powerful drama about identity and a mind damaged almost beyond repair.

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"First published as Heisenberg, 2015"--Title page verso.

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This reference traces in fascinating detail the exceptionally long career of Helen Hayes, the First Lady of the American Theatre.

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Its now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast and the British love affair with radio began.

This book is a journey through that fascinating history and a celebration of the many wonderful voices that were part of it: Marion Cran, who pioneered the first gardening programme in the 1920s;

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Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English. This book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzots achievement, situating his life and work in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed analysis of his major films.

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The life and career of Henry Fonda, one of Hollywood's greatest stars, are detailed in this bio-bibliography that places equal emphasis on the actor's professional and private lives.

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Despite the increasing variety of heroic women portrayed in film, television, and other popular culture channels, much of the understanding of heroines has been limited to females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of overly weak/strong (and even violent) women. ...