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  • Women Experimenting in Theatre

    Early Modern to Contemporary

    Edited by Kate Aughterson, Deborah Philips ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays, covering a broad historical range, shows that women working in theatre and drama since the time of Aphra Behn have been engaged in pushing the boundaries of conventional representation and dramaturgical convention. Collectively the authors show that women have used performing spaces as a channel for both political and personal radicalism - one that has demanded and ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Women Writers and Experimental Narratives

    Early Modern to Contemporary

    Edited by Kate Aughterson, Deborah Philips ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the history of women’s engagement with writing experimentally. Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a way of critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at the same time, as a way to participate in such spaces. Experimentation—of style, mode, voice, genre and language—has enabled women writers to be ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • And This Is My Friend Sandy

    Sandy Wilson's The Boy Friend, London Theatre and Gay Culture

    by Dr Deborah Philips ...
    This book situates the production of The Boy Friend and the Players' Theatre in the context of a post-war London and reads The Boy Friend, and Wilson's later work, as exercises in contemporary camp. It argues for Wilson as a significant and transitional figure both for musical theatre and for modes of homosexuality in the context of the pre-Wolfenden 1950s.Sandy Wilson's The Boy Friend is one of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Writing Well: Creative Writing and Mental Health

    by Deborah Philips, Debra Penman, Liz Linnington ...
    Writing Well is a practical handbook of creative writing exercises which forms the basis of an indirect, nonconfrontational approach specifically intended for therapeutic use within the mental health field. Although people with emotional or psychological problems can find creative writing particularly difficult and unsettling, when writing courses are sensitively designed they are known to be of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Trojan Horse

    The Growth of Commercial Sponsorship

    by Dr Deborah Philips, Prof. Garry Whannel ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Women's Fiction

    From 1945 to Today

    by Dr Deborah Philips ...
    Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present.Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • DIY Utopia

    Cultural Imagination and the Remaking of the Possible

    by Clovis Bergère, Lisa Daily, Linda Doyle, Catherine D'Ignazio, Jessica Foley, Lorenzo Giannini, Martha Kuhlman, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Deborah Philips, Rob Walker, Giorgia Aiello, Stephen Duncombe, Jeremy Hunsinger, Joan Faber McAlister ...
    At first glance, contemporary popular culture, filled with bleak images of the future, seems to have given up on the possibility of positive collective change. Below the surface, however, alternative culture is rife with artist-led projects, activist movements, and subcultural communities of interest that seek to spark the collective imagination and to encourage hunger for alternatives. More ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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    Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators

    by Martin Edwards ...
    Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards.‘Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime writing.’ The TimesIn the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Noel Coward

    A Biography of Noel Coward

    by Philip Hoare ...
    The definitive biography of one of the 20th century’s most celebrated and controversial dramatists.To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker Noël Coward (1899–1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. Given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, Samuel Johnson Prize ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group

    Edited by Victoria Rosner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Named after a small neighborhood in London where its members settled as young adults, the Bloomsbury Group produced an impressive body of work that yielded British Post-Impressionist painting, literary modernism, the field of macroeconomics, and a new direction for public taste in art. This Companion offers a comprehensive guide to the intellectual and social contexts surrounding Bloomsbury and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • British National Cinema

    by Sarah Street ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    The first substantial overview of the British film industry with emphasis on its genres, stars, and socioeconomic context, British National Cinema by Sarah Street is an important title in Routledge's new National Cinemas series. British National Cinema synthesizes years of scholarship on British film while incorporating the author' fresh perspective and research. Street divides the study of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The London Blue Plaque Guide

    4th Edition

    by Nick Rennison ...
    Connecting people with places, London's distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in our history and culture have lived and worked.From Gertrude Bell to Karl Marx, Charlie Chaplin to Jimi Hendrix, this fully updated 5th edition of The London Blue Plaque Guide has over a thousand entries and provides an essential companion to the famous ... Read more

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