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  • The Golden Age of Pantomime

    Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England

    Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. It remains as true today as it was in the 1830s, that a visit to the pantomime constitutes the first theatrical experience of most children and now, as then, a successful pantomime season is the key to the financial health of most theatres. Everyone ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Book of the City of Ladies (Revised Edition)

    Translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards ...
    "Astonishing, original....an early chapter in women's revisionary history [that] offers true eloquence resurrected from the silence of the past."—The New York Times Book ReviewIn dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • China and the Chinese in Popular Film

    From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan

    Series series Cinema and Society
    There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Strikes Twice

    Strikes Twice is a literary magazine dedicated to work that challenges the societal norms that diminish our humanity. Through short stories, poetry, essays, and criticism, we amplify bold, singular voices that reflect the complexity of our shared experience. Each piece confronts, questions, and reimagines-revealing not just who we are as individuals, but who we are together. ... Read more

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  • Politics, performance and popular culture

    Theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain

    This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Lost Worlds of John Ford

    Beyond the Western

    Series series Cinema and Society
    The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jeffrey Richards develops and broadens our understanding of Ford's film-making oeuvre by studying his non-Western films through the lens of Ford's life and abiding preoccupations. Ford's other cinematic worlds included Ireland, the Family, Catholicism, War ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

    476-752

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    There has been a tendency to the view the history of the early medieval papacy predominantly in ideological terms, which has resulted in the over-exaggeration of the idea of the papal monarchy. In this study, first published in 1979, Jeffrey Richards questions this view, arguing that whilst the papacy’s power and responsibility grew during the period under discussion, it did so by a series of ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Swordsmen of the Screen

    From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assesses the contributions to the genre of directors, designers and fencing masters, as well as of the stars themselves, and devotes several chapters to the principal subjects if the swashbucklers – pirates, highwaymen, cavaliers and knights. The result is ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Visions of Yesterday

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Film is an important source of social history, as well as having been a popular art form from the early twentieth century. This study shows how a society, consciously or unconsciously, is mirrored in its cinema. It considers the role of the cinema in dramatizing popular beliefs and myths, and takes three case studies – American populism, British imperialism, German Nazism – to explain how a nation ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Consul of God (Routledge Revivals)

    The Life and Times of Gregory the Great

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Gregory the Great, whose reign spanned the years between 590 and 604 A.D., was one of the most remarkable figures of the early medieval Papacy. Aristocrat, administrator, teacher and scholar, he ascended the throne of St Peter at a time of acute crisis for the Roman Church.Consul of God, first published in 1980, revises the traditional picture of Pope Gregory. It examines how he organised the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Inventing the cave man

    From Darwin to the Flintstones

    Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors were portrayed in satirical cartoons, songs, sketches and plays as ape-like, reflecting the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Sex, Dissidence and Damnation

    Minority Groups in the Middle Ages

    For the authorities in medieval Europe, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. It was to be crushed - initially by reason and argument, eventually by torture. Jeffrey Richards examines the wretched lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals and uncovers a common motive for their persecution: sexual aberrance. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD