Barbara Ryan is associate professor in the University Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of Love, Wages, Slavery and a coeditor of Reading Acts.Milette Shamir is senior lecturer in English and American studies at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature and coeditor of Boys Don »t Cry? Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.
32 Ebooks par Neil Sinyard
Barbara Ryan & Milette Shamir: Bigger than Ben-Hur
First published in 1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ became a best-seller. The popular novel spawned an 1899 stage adaptation, reaching audiences of over 10 million, and two highly successful film …
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€35.99
Neil Sinyard: Graham Greene
A new title in Palgrave Macmillan’s Literary Lives series, this is a biographical narrative of Graham Greene’s literary career. Among other things, it explores his motives for writing; the literary a …
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€57.05
Neil Sinyard: Filming Literature
This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawr …
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€58.86
Neil Sinyard: Filming Literature
This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawr …
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€58.46
Ian Mackillop & Neil Sinyard: British cinema of the 1950s
Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history. Covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women’s …
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€146.07
Sinyard Neil Sinyard: Wonderful Heart
Revered by his cinematic peers, William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, with such classics as Dead End, Wuthering Heights, The Little …
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€38.59
Sinyard Neil Sinyard: George Stevens
"George Stevens could do anything, " said veteran Hollywood producer Pandro S. Berman, "break your heart or make you laugh." Winner of two Best Director Oscars–for A Place in the …
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€35.93
Colin Gardner: Karel Reisz
Czech-born refugee Karel Reisz (1926-2002) is widely regarded as one of the seminal figures in post-war British cinema. Along with Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson, Reisz was a founder member of …
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€24.99
Kathryn Hannan & John Izod: Lindsay Anderson
In a long and varied career, Lindsay Anderson made training films, documentaries, searing family dramas and blistering satires, including This Sporting Life, O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital. Stud …
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€124.99
Brian McFarlane & Deane Williams: Michael Winterbottom
This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, and his company, Re …
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€119.99
Brian McFarlane: Four from the forties
The ‘Gainsborough melodramas’ were a mainstay of 1940s British cinema, and helped make the careers of such stars as Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Stewart Granger. But what was unique about these …
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€124.99
Melanie Williams: David Lean
‘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, Dav …
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€27.99
Sally Dux: Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough’s film career has stretched across seven decades; surprisingly, Sally Dux’s book is the first detailed scholarly analysis of his work as a filmmaker. Concentrating on his work be …
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€119.99
Tom Ryall: Anthony Asquith
This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director’s work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, examining the artistic and cult …
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€23.99
Tony Whitehead: Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh may well be Britain’s greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the …
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€24.99
Keith Beattie: Humphrey Jennings
Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representationa …
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€119.99
Peter Hutchings: Terence Fisher
Terence Fisher is best known as the director who made most of the classic Hammer horrors – including The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Devil Rides Out. But there is more to Terence Fisher th …
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Peter Marks: Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam presents a sustained examination of one of cinema’s most challenging and lauded auteurs, proposing fresh ways of seeing Gilliam that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but …
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€119.99
Brian McFarlane: Lance Comfort
In the years between 1941 and 1965, Lance Comfort made some of the most entertaining films in Britain. There was the striking success of his second feature as director, Hatter’s Castle (1941) and whe …
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€23.99
Peter William Evans: Carol Reed
Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed’s entire career, combining observatio …
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€24.99
Rowland Wymer: Derek Jarman
This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman’s feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema rathe …
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€24.99
Steve Chibnall: J. Lee Thompson
First published on the fiftieth anniversary of his directorial debut, this book was the first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio syste …
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€29.99
Neil Sinyard: Jack Clayton
In François Truffaut’s opinion The Innocents was ‘the best English film after Hitchcock goes to America’. Tennessee Williams said of The Great Gatsby: ‘a film whose artistry even surpassed the origin …
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€26.99
Colin Gardner: Joseph Losey
The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt B …
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€24.99
Quentin Falk: Charles Crichton
Charles Crichton is perhaps best remembered as the director of the unlikely blockbuster hit A Fish Called Wanda, made when he was seventy-seven years old. But the most significant part of his career …
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€119.99
Steve Chibnall: J. Lee Thompson
First published on the fiftieth anniversary of his directorial debut, this book was the first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio syste …
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€29.99
Brian McFarlane: Four from the forties
The ‘Gainsborough melodramas’ were a mainstay of 1940s British cinema, and helped make the careers of such stars as Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Stewart Granger. But what was unique about these …
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€109.34
Melanie Williams: David Lean
‘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, Dav …
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€24.33
Sally Dux: Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough’s film career has stretched across seven decades; surprisingly, Sally Dux’s book is the first detailed scholarly analysis of his work as a filmmaker. Concentrating on his work be …
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€108.90
Tony Whitehead: Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh may well be Britain’s greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the …
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€21.75
Keith Beattie: Humphrey Jennings
Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representationa …
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€108.84
Tom Ryall: Anthony Asquith
This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director’s work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, examining the artistic and cult …
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€20.58
