Macmillan imprint: 15028 books
British Crime Film
Subverting the Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day "Mockney" productions, it contextualizes the films and identifies important and neglected works.
Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture
Top Hat, Gladstone Bag and Fog
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London. The murderer was never caught, yet film and television depicts a killer with a recognisable costume, motive and persona. This book examines the origins of the screen presentation...
J.R.R. Tolkien's Double Worlds and Creative Process
Language and Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
A close colleague of Tolkein for many years, Zettersten offers here a personally informed analysis of his fiction. In light of his unusual life experience and enthusiasm for the study of languages, Zettersten finds in Tolkein's fiction the same animating passions that drove that great author as a youth, a soldier, a linguist, and an Oxford Don.
by Julia Bell
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Weight has always been a big issue in Carmen's life. Not surprising when her mum is obsessed with the idea that thin equals beauty, thin equals success, thin equals the way to get what you want. And somehow her daughter is going to be thin.
When her mother sweeps her off to live in the city,...
by Peter James
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
You are Dead is the eleventh thrilling crime novel in Peter James' Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series.
They were marked for death.
The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground...
Government Transparency
Impacts and Unintended Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Transparency has become a global concept of responsible government. This book argues that the transnational discourse of transparency promotes potentially contradictory policy ideas that can lead to unintended consequences. It critically examines whether or not increased transparency really leads to increased democratic accountability.
Brian Friel
Theatre and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Friel is recognised as Ireland's leading playwright and due to the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has made a major impact on world theatre. This study draws on the Friel Archive to deepen our understanding of how his plays were developed.
Staging the Screen
The Use of Film and Video in Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
The use of film and video is widespread in contemporary theatre. Staging the Screen explores a variety of productions, ranging from Piscator to Forced Entertainment, charting the impact of developing technologies on practices in dramaturgy and performance. Giesekam addresses critical issues raised by multi-media work and inter-media work
Practice as Research in the Arts
Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
At the performance turn, this book takes a fresh 'how to' approach to Practice as Research, arguing that old prejudices should be abandoned and a PaR methodology fully accepted in the academy. Nelson and his contributors address the questions students, professional practitioner-researchers, regulators and examiners have posed in this domain.
3D Cinema
Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing 3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order to fully understand the embodied and sensory dimensions of 3D cinema's unique visuality.
Tennessee Williams
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it.
Memoirs of a Fat Bastard
How I lost my gut and gained a life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Chris Gibson, is one fat, drunk, angry bastard.
He's tried every diet: Atkins, South Beach, Pritikin... Problem is he still can't get his pants on in the morning. And he got none of the genes of his movie star brother Mel. In his early 40s with a job he hates and a lifestyle that is killing...
Choreographic Dwellings
Practising Place
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Choreographic Dwellings: Practising Place offers new readings of the kinaesthetic experiences of site-specific and nomadic performance, parkour, installation and walking practices. It extends the remit of the choreographic by reframing the kinaesthetic qualities of place as action.
Boys, Bass and Bother
Popular Dance and Identity in UK Drum ’n’ Bass Club Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book uses ethnographic research to examine the role of dance in the construction of identity in the distinctly British electronic dance music club culture of drum ’n’ bass. Dancing is revealed as the central way in which drum ’n’ bass clubbers construct and perform their identities, which...