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“john wyver”

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  • Magic Rays of Light

    The Early Years of Television in Britain

    by John Wyver ...
    On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been working towards, television. In the years that followed, variants of this astonishing device produced programming that was rich, complex and excitingly imaginative. Familiar television genres, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Screen plays

    Theatre plays on British television

    Edited by Amanda Wrigley, John Wyver ...
    Screen plays is a ground-breaking collection that chronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and the present. The volume opens with a substantial historical outline of how plays originally written for the theatre have been presented by the BBC and ITV, as well as independent producers and cultural organisations. Subsequent chapters utilise ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company

    A Critical History

    by John Wyver ...
    No theatre company has been involved in such a broad range of adaptations for television and cinema as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Starting with Richard III filmed in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre before World War One, the RSC's accomplishments continue today with highly successful live cinema broadcasts. The Wars of the Roses (BBC, 1965), Peter Brook's film of King Lear (1971), Channel 4's ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

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    A History

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    "British Film Design" is about the things that you see when you close your eyes and think of British cinema: "Dr. No's Hideaway", the buffet of "Brief Encounter", Vera Drake's parlour, "Hogwarts School"...and a thousand other visions of British films. This book is also about the people who have created those visions. The physical environments of films are made by Production Designers/Art Directors ... Read more

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  • Radio Drama

    by Tim Crook ...
    Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drams, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory.Challenging the belief that sound drama is a 'blind medium', Radio Drama shows how experimentation in radio narrative has blurred the dividing line between fiction and reality in modern media. Using extracts from scripts and analysing ... Read more

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  • British Cinema

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Charles Barr ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial - often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers. In this Very Short Introduction, Charles Barr considers films and filmmakers, and studios ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • J.B. Priestley

    by Maggie B. Gale ...
    Series series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
    J. B. Priestley is the first book to provide a detailed and up to date analysis of the enormous contribution made by this playwright, novelist, journalist and critic to twentieth century British theatre.Priestley was often criticised for being either too populist or too experimental and this study unpicks the contradictions of a playwright and theatre theorist popular with audiences but too often ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Pop Art and Design

    Edited by Anne Massey, Alex Seago ...
    This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between art and design, which led to the creation of 'pop'. Challenging accepted boundaries and definitions, the authors seek out various commonalities and points of connection between these two exciting areas.Confronting the all-pervasive 'high art / low culture' divide, Pop Art and Design brings a fresh understanding of visual ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Experimental British television

    Edited by Jamie Sexton, Laura Mulvey ...
    Throughout its history, British television has found a place, if only in its margins, for programmes that consciously worked to expand the boundaries of television aesthetics. Even in the present climate of increased academic interest in television history, its experimental tradition has generally either been approached generically or been lost within the assumption that television is simply a ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History

    Edited by I.Q. Hunter, Laraine Porter, Justin Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    Over 39 chapters The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History offers a comprehensive and revisionist overview of British cinema as, on the one hand, a commercial entertainment industry and, on the other, a series of institutions centred on economics, funding and relations to government.Whereas most histories of British cinema focus on directors, stars, genres and themes, this Companion ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Acting for the Silent Screen

    Film Actors and Aspiration between the Wars

    by Chris O'Rourke ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to perform in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some might have considered a 'low' art. Stories like these were the stuff of newspaper headlines in 1920s and reflected a 'craze' for the cinema. They also ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Tony Garnett

    by Stephen Lacey ...
    Series series The Television Series
    Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most respected and prolific producers working in British television. From ground-breaking dramas from the 1960s such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home to the 'must see' series in the 1990s and 2000s such as This Life and The Cops, Garnett has produced some of the most important and influential British television drama.This book charts ... Read more

    $17.99 USD