James Phillips: 37 books

James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the German-American actor Marlene Dietrich (1901-92). Considered by his contemporaries one of the most significant...

You look otherworldly. Like all my girls. This will make you a queen. Like years ago and people wore clothes like weapons, like weapons against poor people, because even is you were hungry how could you raise your fist against what looked like a god? But I can make things that are weapons against...

What happens when someone tells you that you're the answer to the riddle of life? What happens when a stranger in Starbucks gives you something that will change your world forever? What happens if the world starts to fall asleep, hour by hour? City Stories is a new type of cabaret drama, a...

Cuba was run as an American protectorate by The US President and The US Mafia was there ever a connection? The ruling families of Cuba, The Batista's traditionally ruled the island of Cuba as their private fiefdom. There was no law and order for poor Cubans, just daily exploitation, murder, rape...

She came to us one dawn. The girl. Far out One dawn alone beneath the wine dark sea. One day it starts to rain and no-one knows why. And it doesn't stop. Far out on the North Sea a fisherman raises a girl in his net, miraculously alive from the deep sea. Is she one of the migrants now washing up on...

What if Roswell was actually a cover up not for aliens but for a government plan to enter an alternate dimension? Furthermore, what if this dimension was technologically superior to our own and the government was planning to try again? This is the information that a mysterious businessman has just...

A poor boy from the Projects poor housing estate does well at grammar-high school and is selected to join the air force as an office-gentleman- jet pilot. There is a big reduction in defence budgets and pilot training is severely hit; so he is transferred into the Police. He is very...

Camelot: The Shining City is a modern re-telling of the myth of King Arthur, by award-winning playwright James Phillips. Developed in collaboration with Slung Low, specialists in spectacular theatrical experiences, and Sheffield People's Theatre, Camelot: The Shining City is written for a company...

The poor council-projects estate boy gets a first class degree in Criminology from University. Once the Government and The Chief of police see they have a genius on their hands he is heading for the top. He is posted from his Police station after a successful drugs arrests to anti-police...

Bombay in India; now called through politics Mumbai; was a wonderful place in 1930's. A busy commercial and bustling housing area for millions of people, where anything including policemen and the judiciary could be bought and sold daily in India; just like today. Superintendent Grant was an...

A young boy the son of a poor builder in Bremen has to join the Wermacht (Army) to gain an education. He becomes an artillery officer and is transferred into the new Luftwaffe. In Spain he gains an Iron cross with The Condors and meets The Fuhrer. As war starts he is transferred by The Fuhrer...

A remarkable new play about Cold-War betrayal and the quest for justice In McCarthy's America, Jakob and Esther Rubenstein are betrayed and punished for an act of industrial espionage. Could this be the greatest miscarriage of justice of the twentieth century? New York. Matthew Maddison...

You remember when we started to hunt whales again? We fought monsters and we killed them and wrestled the oil from their dead bodies and we sold it. In the future we hunt whales for the oil in their bodies. Just like they did in centuries past. The oil of a single whale can run an army for...

An In-depth Study of Different Types Of Iguana's and Their Habitat, Ecology, Foods, Illnesses and Health.