Manchester University Press: 1049 books
The cinema of Oliver Stone
Art, authorship and activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book analyses the work of Oliver Stone - arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. From early productions like Platoon (1986) and Wall Street (1987) to contemporary dramas and documentaries such as World Trade Center (2006), Wall Street: Money...
Queen and Country
Same-Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939-45
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Using a rich array of oral histories and previously unseen archival sources, Queen and country provides the first detailed academic study of the complex intersection between same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945. It illuminates how men and women lived,...
Partners in Suspense
Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
This volume of new, spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, featuring new perspectives on their collaboration. Featuring essays by leading scholars of Hitchcock's work, including Richard Allen, Charles Barr, Murray Pomerance, Sidney Gottlieb...
Leprosy and Colonialism
Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state. It explores the relationship between the modern stigmatization and exclusion of people...
Crisis? What Crisis?
The Callaghan government and the British 'winter of discontent'
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
On 22 January 1979, one and a half million workers were on strike - the highest number since the 1926 General Strike. Iconic images in the media of the industrial unrest that swept Britain in an Arctic winter captured mountains of uncollected rubbish in London's theatre land; militant shop stewards...
by Rob Stone
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red Squirrel), Tierra, Los amantes del Círculo Polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle), Lucía y el sexo (Sex...
The reality of film
Theories of filmic reality
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of realities...
The Three Amigos
The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the Mexican born directors Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón. The book examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films. These include...
by Amy Bryzgel
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
This volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe since the 1960s. Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance...
by Melanie Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
'A rule of mine is this', said William Goldman in 1983, 'there are always three hot directors and one of them is always David Lean.' One of the best known and most admired of British film makers, David Lean had a directorial career that spanned five decades and encompassed everything from the intimate...
1820
Disorder and Stability in the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
1820 is about much more than a single year. Integrating in detail the experiences of both Britain and Ireland, Chase provides a compelling narrative and analysis of the United Kingdom in a year of European revolution. This fascinating study charts the events and forces that tested the government almost...
The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
The Mysteries of a Crime of State
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France's Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution, on the orders of the king's council, of the Protestant leaders unleashed a vast...
by Elizabeth C. Macknight
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This study of tangible and intangible cultural heritage explains the significance of nobles' conservationist traditions for public engagement with the history of France. During the French Revolution nobles' property was seized, destroyed, or sold off by the nation. State intervention during the nineteenth...
Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The contributions show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love and other emotions as a means of approaching the problem of tradition. As these texts reflect on their own traditionality,...