Marion Boyars: 50 books

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Deadline at Dawn

Film Criticism 1980-1990

by Judith Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1993

Judith Williamson takes herself to the movies, and this book contains the reviews she wrote as film critic for Time Out, City Limits, the radical alternative London weekly listings paper, and the New Statesman. This book contains her journalism, analysis of those times and her career as a journalist...
Cover of From CBGB to the Roundhouse
by Tim Burrows
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007

Casting his eye widely across the globe, Tim Burrows examines the facts, myths and characters behind such legendary venues as the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, the Astoria in London and the Cloudlands Ballroom in Brisbane. Interviewing the musicians and promoters who were there at the beginning and...
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More Than Eyes Can See

A nine month journey through the AIDS pandemic

by Rhidian Brook
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007

Sent by the Salvation Army to bear witness to the work they were doing in response to the Aids pandemic, Rhidian Brook, his wife and two children, follow a tril of devastation through communities still shattered and being broken by the disease. He met truck stop workers in Kenya, victims of rape in...
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Gothic Fantasy

The Fims of Tim Burton

by Edwin Page
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006

Edwin Page takes us on a journey through the films of Tim Burton, through which we gain insights into the mysterious, and somewhat reclusive film director responsible for them. A book ideally suited to film studies and media studies, at school and undergraduate level, this book has analysis of the...
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by Edwin Page
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005

From Reservoir Dogs in 1992 to the Kill Bill series of films, the films of Quentin Tarantino have always provoked a reaction from critics and audiences alike - many attracting a cult-like following. Edwin Page discusses each of the eight films written and directed by Tarantino, and explores the complexity...
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Belly Dance

The Dance of Mother Earth

by Tina Hobin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003

Tina Hobin - acknowledged expert and practitioner of belly dance, with many years experience of teaching and dancing throughout the world - introduces us to the history of this ancient and mystical dance in an accessible style, both enjoyable and easy to read. Tracing the evolution of belly dance...
Cover of ABC: The Alphabetizaton of the Popular Mind
by Ivan Illich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988

In ABC... philosopher and cultural analyst Ivan Illich and medieval scholar and literary critic Barry Sanders have produced an original, meticulous and provocative study of the advent, spread and present decline of literacy. They explore he impact of the alphabet on fundamental thought processes and...
Cover of H20 and the Waters of Forgetfulness
by Ivan Illich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1986

Philosopher and social analyst Ivan Illich, one of the most influential thinkers of second half of this century, directs his attention to waterm the 'stuff' of purity and the creative force of the imagination without which life in unthinkable. He deals with the dual nature of water, as life-giving...
Cover of Gender
by Ivan Illich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1983

The break with the past, which has been described by others as the transition to a capitalist mode of production, I describe here as the transition from the aegis of gender to the regime of sex.' Ivan Illich insists that we survey attitudes to male and female in both industrial society and its antecedents...
Cover of Shadow Work
by Ivan Illich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981

In five essays, followed by extensive notes and bibliographies, Ivan Illich embarks on a major historical and sociological analysis of modern man's economic existence. He traces and analyzes options which surpass the conventional political 'right-left' and the technological 'soft-hard' alternatives...
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In the Mirror of the Past

Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990

by Ivan Illich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1991

During the 1980s Ivan Illich added another dimension to his thought through the study of Medieval history. In the current volume he aims to demonstrate the extent to which the groundwork for the institutions that characterize our world today was laid in the twelfth century. The topics with which Illich...
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Celebration of Awareness

A Call for Institutional Revolution

by Ivan Illich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1971

As a formidable critic of some of society's most cherished institutions, such as compulsory education and organised religion, Ivan Illich has attracted world attention. His commitment to a radical humanism against conventional institutions and esatablished ideas of social virtue make for compelling,...
Cover of Deschooling Society
by Ivan Illich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995

Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper yardsticks for measuring the quality of human life. Our universities have become recruiting centres...
Cover of Energy and Equity
by Ivan Illich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1974

A junkie without access to his stash is in a state of crisis. The "energy crisis' that exists intermittently when the flow of fuel from unstable countries is cut off or threatened, is a crisis in the same sense. When such a crisis is perceived in the western sphere, there are normally two solutions...
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