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  • The Arena Concert

    Music, Media and Mass Entertainment

    Edited by Dr. Kirsty Fairclough, Nicola Spelman, Dr. Benjamin Halligan, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar ...
    The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and star - the art form of the 21st century.This volume offers interviews with key designers, discussions of the practicalities of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Making of an African Communist: Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana

    And the Communist Party of South Africa 1927 to 1939

    by Robert Edgar ...
    Series series 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa
    This book is a short biography of the life of Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana – the General Secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa. Set against the backdrop of political crisis in South Africa, the subject matter in this book discusses Mofutsanyana’s political endeavors and his service and contribution to the freedom struggle.Print editions not for sale in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book is part ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Language of Film

    by Steven Rawle, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience's thoughts and feelings and guide their gaze around the screen.Packed with examples from classic and contemporary cinema, The Language of Film reveals the essential building blocks of film and explains how the screen communicates meaning to its audience. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Horrifying Children

    Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Television

    Edited by Lauren Stephenson, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    Horrifying Children examines weird and eerie children's television and literature via critical analysis, memoir and autoethnography.There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of children's television and literature of the late twentieth century. In particular, the 1970s, '80s and '90s are seen as decades that shaped a great deal of the contemporary cultural landscape. Television of this ... Read more

    Was $97.99 USD Now $32.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror

    Edited by Robert Edgar, Wayne Johnson ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror offers a comprehensive guide to this popular genre. It explores its origins, canonical texts and thinkers, the crucial underlying themes of nostalgia and hauntology, and identifies new trends in the field.Divided into five parts, the first focuses on the history of Folk Horror from medieval texts to the present day. It considers the first wave of contemporary ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition

    by Dr. Alan G. Smith, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'. Hardy's novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardy's Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Music, Memory and Memoir

    Edited by Fraser Mann, Helen Pleasance, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar ...
    Music, Memory and Memoir provides a unique look at the contemporary cultural phenomenon of the music memoir and, leading from this, the way that music is used to construct memory. Via analyses of memoirs that consider punk and pop, indie and dance, this text examines the nature of memory for musicians and the function of music in creating personal and cultural narratives. This book includes ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Music Documentary

    Acid Rock to Electropop

    Edited by Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs ...
    Series series Routledge Music and Screen Media Series
    The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural artefact in documenting stars and icons, and musicians and their times – particularly for those ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Adaptation for Screenwriters

    by Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    Develop the critical and creative skills to 'translate' a story from page to screen with this step-by-step guide to the process of screen adaptation you'll learn to:- interrogate a novel or short story to release its 'inner film'- convert fictional prose into visual drama- overcome the obstacles presented by different media 'languages'- approach key strategic decisions - both technical and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Basics Film-Making 02: Screenwriting

    by Mr James Richards, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    Series series Basics Filmmaking
    Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film. The book teaches the key elements of screenwriting through examining areas such as dialogue, sound, setting, shots and structure. It also provides advice to new film-makers on how to market their productions. This ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Basics Film-Making 03: Directing Fiction

    by Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar ...
    Series series Basics Filmmaking
    Basics Film-Making: Directing Fiction introduces the essential aspects of the directorial process, focusing on the requirements of short films while also drawing on classic examples from the world of feature films. It looks at the tricky balancing act of art and business, offering guidelines and basic principles rather than instructions.Divided into the three key stages of the film-making process ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Gothic

    Edited by Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age.The Routledge Companion to Gothic includes discussion on:the history of Gothicgothic throughout the English-speaking world i.e. London and USA as well as the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD