-
Eighteenth-century brechtians
Eighteenth-Century Brechtians is a collection of essays by a well-known author on comic and radical political theatre. It looks at stage satires by John Gay, Henry Fielding, George Farquhar, Charlotte Charke, David Garrick and their contemporaries through the lens of Brecht’s theory and practic...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Celluloid war memorials
British Instructional Films was at the centre of a number of issues important to Britain and the Empire in the 1920s: the memory and history of the Great War, national and imperial identities, the role of cinema as a shaper of attitudes, power relations between Britain and the USA and the nature...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Theatre censorship in contemporary europe
With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts, and impacts of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe.
Regular price £95.00Sale price £95.00 Regular price £95.00Unit price per -
Picturing cornwall
This book explores the history of Cornwall‘s portrayal on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark books. Innovative new research looking at amateur film and newsreels, avant-garde and documentary works alongside mainstream popula...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Bill douglas
This book uses new source material to reappraise the work of Bill Douglas – one of Britain’s most significant and singular filmmakers. Douglas’s poetic and moving films continue to inspire filmmakers today but his struggles within the film industry raise questions as to whether it is possible to...
Read MoreRegular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price per -
Going to the movies
This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Forms of conflict
This is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deployed by theatre practitioners in Britain as they meet the representational challenges posed by the ‘new wars’ of the global era.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Legitimate cinema
This is the first new book-length study of British cinema of the 1910s to be published for over fifty years, and it focuses on the close relationship between the British film industry and the Edwardian theatre.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Acting greek tragedy
With a strong interest in the performance of ancient Greek tragedy, Graham Ley’s short text explores the dynamics of physical interaction between performers and of the dramaturgical construction of scenes.
Regular price £15.00Sale price £15.00 Regular price £15.00Unit price per -
Dancing in utopia
In 1925 Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst bought the Dartington Hall Estate, planning for a community where arts and education would underpin a fulfilling life. There was an emphasis on the art of dance, with artists from Europe, America and Asia gracing its studios and gardens. This is the story of u...
Read MoreRegular price £95.00Sale price £95.00 Regular price £95.00Unit price per -
The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 2
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
Read MoreRegular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £30.00Unit price per -
Alternative film culture in interwar britain
In the first book-length study to concentrate specifically on Britain, Jamie Sexton examines the rise of avant-garde and experimental film-making between the wars.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Tv-philosophy
The first book to explore the hold of the TV series on ordinary life from a philosophical and ethical perspective.
Regular price £60.00Sale price £60.00 Regular price £60.00Unit price per -
Tv-philosophy in action
This book gives Laugier’s response as a philosopher-viewer to selected TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relationship to social and political issues of our times.
Regular price £60.00Sale price £60.00 Regular price £60.00Unit price per -
The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 1
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
British cinema and middlebrow culture in the interwar years
This offers an understanding of British Cinema between 1928 and 1939 through an analysis of the relationship between the British film industry and other ‘culture industries’ such as the radio, music recording, publishing and early television.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
The censorship of british drama 1900-1968 volume 4
Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize – 2016 New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre Research This volume covers the 1960s, a significant decade in social and political spheres in Britain, especially in ...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Grand-guignolesque
Grand-Guignolesque explores the continuing influence and legacy of the infamous Parisian theatre of horror. The volume consists of a critical introduction along with thirteen previously unpublished scripts of classic Grand-Guignol and modern horror plays, each with its own contextualizing preface.
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price per -
Theatre and politics in post-conflict northern ireland
This history of recent theatre in northern Ireland examines the major developments in mainstream, applied, and community theatre in relation to the politics of the post-conflict period. From the Good Friday Agreement to the post-Brexit period, it tracks the ways in which theatre has been used to ...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Performing grand-guignol
From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London’s Grand Guignol - also published by UEP – this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Multimedia histories
Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital culture and an absorbing history of screen entertainments and technologies. Its range of coverage moves from the magic lantern, the stereoscope and ear...
Read MoreRegular price £22.50Sale price £22.50 Regular price £22.50Unit price per -
London’s grand guignol and the theatre of horror
A companion to UEP’s Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). London’s Grand Guignol was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. It was a high-profile venture that enjoyed popular success as much as critical controversy.
Regular price £22.50Sale price £22.50 Regular price £22.50Unit price per -
Picture perfect
The fifth in a series of volumes from the annual British Silent Cinema Festival held in Nottingham (and the first to be published by Exeter), this collective study offers an original treatment of the relationship between pre-1930 cinema and landscape.
Regular price £17.50Sale price £17.50 Regular price £17.50Unit price per -
Marketing modernity
In this study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember demonstrates that prior to the emergence of a specific discipline of screen acting and the arrival of picture personalities, the early cinema inherited its human dimensions from diverse earlier traditions of performance, from the magic lantern le...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
British south asian theatres
Drawing on archive material and a series of personal interviews, this exciting new book reverses the neglect of this vital element in the history of contemporary theatre – the vibrant presence of South Asians in theatre in Britain.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 5
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
Read MoreRegular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £30.00Unit price per -
The world according to hollywood,1918-1939
The World According to Hollywood examines the world-wide influence of the American film industry during its golden age — the 1920s and 1930s — and investigates the business policies that shaped the fictional universe of Hollywood movies.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Theatres of the troubles
The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican and Loyalist communities of Belfast and Derry during the latest phase of the four hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain.
Regular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price per -
John hamrick’s blue mouse cinemas
A unique, in-depth case study of regional independent film exhibition in the Pacific Northwest. This book helps us understand the unexplored role and influence of American indie small-chain exhibitors during the height of the studio era.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
Young and innocent?
This book brings together the study of silent cinema and the study of British cinema, both of which have seen some of the most exciting developments in Film Studies in recent years. The result is a comprehensive survey of one of the most important periods of film history.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 4
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Charles urban
Based on original research from Charles Urban’s own papers, this is the first biography of this influential film maker and innovator. A historical study of the development of the non-fiction film in Britain and America in the early years of cinema. Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book A...
Read MoreRegular price £22.00Sale price £22.00 Regular price £22.00Unit price per -
Hollywood, westerns and the 1930s
For the first time, this book tells the 'lost' story of the 1930s Western. Written from a concern to understand Western films primarily as products of Hollywood's studio system, it recovers the context in which Westerns were produced, exhibited and viewed in the 1930s.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Marking time
This book charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city – Cardiff. In a series of five itineraries, it visits fifty sites where significant events occurred, setting performances within local topographical and social contexts, and in relation ...
Read MoreRegular price £22.50Sale price £22.50 Regular price £22.50Unit price per -
Silent features
Silent Features is a collection of essays on seventeen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features, their diverse stylistic, generic and structural characteristics, and the national, historical and industrial contexts from which they emerged. Of the 17 films discussed, 15 are still...
Read MoreRegular price £27.00Sale price £27.00 Regular price £27.00Unit price per -
Making theatre in northern ireland
This book examines the relationships between theatre and the turbulent political and social context of Northern Ireland since 1969. It explores key theatrical performances which deal directly with this context. The book is aimed at a student readership: it is largely play-text-based, and it conta...
Read MoreRegular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price per -
Green screen
This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely perpetuated romantic attitudes to nature and has played an important ideological role in the 'green...
Read MoreRegular price £17.50Sale price £17.50 Regular price £17.50Unit price per -
The holocaust and hollywood studios
This book traces the complex relationship entangling American movie studios with Nazi anti-Semitism and the Holocaust throughout the 1930s and 1940s. It explains the encounter not just through isolated films or a few individuals, but by revealing how the path to genocide touched almost every aspe...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
On actors and acting
This is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. Three sections cover from the Elizabethan period to the 20th century.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 3
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
Read MoreRegular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £30.00Unit price per -
Cinema on the front line
Cinema on the Front Line offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of how British soldiers engaged with and were engaged by the medium of cinema during World War I. Utilizing extensive archival records and soldier testimony, the book offers a unique perspective on the cultural value and...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
British theatre and the red peril
British Theatre and the Red Peril examines how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge of collapse, the theatre played a significant part in communicating and manipulating political propaganda ...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
In comes i
‘In Comes I’ explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions into the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from archaeology, geomorphology, folklore, and local ...
Read MoreRegular price £20.00Sale price £20.00 Regular price £20.00Unit price per -
Reading the cinematograph
The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.
Regular price £22.50Sale price £22.50 Regular price £22.50Unit price per -
The lost jungle
Why has the Hollywood sound serial received so little scholarly attention? Here, the author presents a thorough analysis based on detailed historical research, focusing on the period between 1930 and 1946, when Universal stopped their production. 30 b&w illus.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Finding birt acres
Birt Acres was the first commercial filmmaker in Britain and Germany but has been ill-served by film history. Of mysterious origins, this book tells his full story for the first time: tracing his American beginnings, his fame in the field of British photography, his embrace of the moving image an...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price per -
Decoding the movies
This book “decodes” 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved as they did. Representing the summation of Richard Maltby’s four decades of scholarship in the field, it uses a series of case studies to demonstrate how an appreciation of these movies is enhanced by examining th...
Read MoreRegular price £115.00Sale price £115.00 Regular price £115.00Unit price per -
Picturegoers
This book shows the impact of cinema on individuals across the globe, from the 1890s to the present day. It analyses and celebrates the audience’s point of view, shaped by time, experience and place, providing a rich, entertaining portrait of a medium that became so transformative because anyone,...
Read MoreRegular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £80.00Unit price per -
The censorship of british drama 1900-1968 volume 1
New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre Research This first volume in Steve Nicholson’s important four-part analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 to 1968 is based on previously undocumented material in the Lor...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
A chorus of raspberries
This is the first full-length study of one of the most popular, profitable and persistent genres in British cinema. It redraws the map of British film history by arguing that comedy was the most successful, and important, genre of the 1930s, and that the very qualities which ensured the comedy fi...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
The censorship of british drama 1900-1968 volume 2
New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre Research This volume covers the period from 1933 to 1952, and focuses on theatre censorship during the period before, during and after the Second World War, focusing mainly on poli...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Victory over the sun
The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes. This volume brings together the first fully annotated translation of the libretto of this ‘anti-opera’ and other ...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price per -
Global tv series and the political imagination
This book examines how contemporary TV series reflect and address social issues, power dynamics, and ideological perspectives in different cultural and political contexts. By analysing examples from around the world, the volume explores the transformative power of TV series in the age of digital ...
Read MoreRegular price £100.00Sale price £100.00 Regular price £100.00Unit price per -
Alternative empires
This is the first book to study representations of the non-Western world in European modernist cinema. In offering new perspectives on the history of Soviet montage cinema and on the British documentary movement, it connects with the growing body of work analysing manifestations of orientalism, E...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Theatre workshop
Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the el...
Read MoreRegular price £22.00Sale price £22.00 Regular price £22.00Unit price per -
Television with stanley cavell in mind
The first book devoted exclusively to how Stanley Cavell’s thoughts about film apply to television. In a dozen chapters, a number of acknowledged critics and philosophers articulate how Cavell’s remarks on the moral perfectionism of cinema apply even more to the twenty-first century television se...
Read MoreRegular price £125.00Sale price £125.00 Regular price £125.00Unit price per -
Ancient greek and contemporary performance
This collection of essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version of ‘the contemporary’. These essays explore historical performance in ancient Greece and link it to wider reflections on cultural theory.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
The censorship of british drama 1900-1968 volume 3
New paperback, with contextualising timeline and biographies, published in association with the Society for Theatre Research This volume covers the 1950s, focusing on plays we know, plays we have forgotten, and plays which were silenced for ever, demonstrating the extent to which censorship shap...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
Popular filmgoing in 1930s britain
In the 1930s there were close to a billion annual admissions to the cinema in Britain and it was by far the most popular paid-for leisure activity. This book is an exploration of that popularity. The book establishes similarities and differences between national and regional tastes through case s...
Read MoreRegular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
'film europe' and 'film america'
A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of the American film industry to these plans to rival its hegemony.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price per -
A paul rotha reader
Paul Rotha was one of the major figures of the British Documentary Movement, second only to John Grierson. He was also a prolific writer. This volume brings together an edited collection of some of his most important writings and addresses a variety of topics.
Regular price £75.00Sale price £75.00 Regular price £75.00Unit price per -
Hoxton hall
Hoxton Hall is an early Victorian music hall built in 1863, one of only a handful surviving in Britain. This book offers a history of the Hall and its role in the social life of a deprived but resilient area of London, bringing together social and religious history with the history of architectur...
Read MoreRegular price £95.00Sale price £95.00 Regular price £95.00Unit price per -
Parallel tracks
This highly original work reveals the profound impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture.
Regular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £30.00Unit price per
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
