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War on terror'
This book covers the many topics of `the war on terror' from legal, philosophical, economic and historical perspectives. The dialogue form of the book (essay-response) allows a broad representation of views, covering the situation in the Middle East, national security, politics of intervention, h...
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From victory to vichy
Explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans’ associations during the interwar years, the Union fédérale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC).
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Reading shakespeare's mind
An accessible, enjoyable, occasionally speculative study based on a vast amount of research into some of Shakespeare's more uninterpretable moments.
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Death machines
Death Machines offers a critical reconsideration of ethical theories and political justifications for technologised practices of violence in contemporary conflicts.
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Global counter-terrorism
This collection proposes a novel contribution to counterterrorism studies by challenging Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism in existing approaches. It explores how colonial epistemes shape everyday practices of counterterrorism.
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Sustainable art communities
A major international collaboration between artists, art historians, curators and policy makers, this collection shows how visual art can play a crucial role in forging a more sustainable community for the Caribbean and its diaspora.
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The question of literature
Brings together essays by a number of distinguished theorists and academics on the changing cultural significance of literature.
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Rethinking the south english legendaries
Rethinking the South English legendaries offers theoretically fresh approaches to the major vernacular collection of saints' lives in the English Middle Ages, combining leading scholars and new voices in the field. The volume creates a new platform for thinking about this richly dynamic but so fa...
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Tolerance and diversity in ireland, north and south
Examines the treatment of cultural and religious diversity – indigenous and immigrant – on both sides of the Irish border to analyse the current state of tolerance and the kinds of policies that need to be developed to respect diversity
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Land questions in modern ireland
Explores the nature and dynamics of Ireland's land questions during the 19th and 20th centuries, and also the ways in which the Irish land question has been written about by historians.
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Women, gender and fascism in europe, 1919–45
Explores what attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights
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Spectacles and the victorians
This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.
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News and rumour in jacobean england
Examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I’s reign.
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Dividing the spoils
As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and appropriation of objects during British colonial warfare.
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Antony and cleopatra
This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy? Come...
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Conserving health in early modern culture
Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy, its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries.
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The american civil rights movement
Covering the whole twentieth century, this work collects in a single, brief volume, documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents), the legal struggle in the courts, and governmental responses to civil rights issues, arranged chronolo...
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The history of marriage equality in ireland
Tracing the campaign for marriage equality, this book highlights how this movement and the related referendum result have propelled Ireland from a country perceived as one repressed and controlled by the Catholic church to a country that is now admired as a leader in equality of human rights.
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Charles dickens and georgina hogarth
Tells the remarkable story of Charles Dickens' relationship with his sister-in-law, his 'best and truest friend' Georgina Hogarth, who came to live with the Dickenses aged fifteen, and continued to live with Charles after they divorced.
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All fools
In this edition, an extensive introduction and commentary show how Chapman combines the literary and theatrical traditions of ancient Rome with everyday life in his own time to fashion a sparkling and innovative comedy that will delight audiences today as much as it did those of 1599.
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Michael reeves
Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating despair: Witchfinder General.
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Writing creatively for work or study
This unique book is the first to show how professional non-fiction writing can benefit from the use of creative writing formats and techniques. It features a wealth of real-life examples, plus exercises to help readers develop their skills.
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Bedsit land
This is the first in-depth account of the band Soft Cell. Written by a leading music journalist and based on extensive interviews, it traces the band’s remarkably varied roots, from British seaside entertainments and Northern Soul nights to art school experimentation and New York glamour.
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The munich crisis, politics and the people
Bringing together leading historians, this volume offers a vital and timely reassessment of Munich Crisis of 1938 from the point of view of the politicians, the people, and public opinion. It takes into account the profound social, cultural, and psychological effects of the crisis, hitherto negle...
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Essays in later medieval french literature
This book honours Jane H. M. Taylor’s important contribution to later medieval French literature and, in its ten original essays, acknowledges the debt the area owes to her scholarship.
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Governance as social and political communication
This book looks at the development of governance analysis in new conceptions of political and democratic communication.
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Ellen n. la motte
Using unexamined sources, including diaries and unpublished manuscripts, this biography traces the life and work of nurse, writer, and activist Ellen N. La Motte (1873-1961), examining how she developed as a professional in the early twentieth century.
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Cinematic ethnography
Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to theories and practices that reside within the fertile zone where anthropology and filmmaking intersect.
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Religion and superstition in reformation europe
What, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was ‘superstition’? Where might it be found, and how might it be countered? How was the term used, and how effective a weapon was it in the assault on traditional religion?. The ease with which accusations of 'superstition' slipped into the langua...
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Barbara comyns
This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs,...
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Nationalising femininity
Case studies examine competing definitions of feminism, contoured by The Second World War, circulating in cinema, women's magazines, social policies, government pamphlets, fashion, and broadcasting
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Drama of the english republic, 1649–1660
Drama of the English Republic' is the first modern collection of plays and entertainments which were originally published and performed when England was a nominally a republic or commonwealth. The five texts, three of which have been edited here for the first time, illustrate how the dramatists d...
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Fragmenting modernism
Fragmenting modernism' is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution.
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Visual culture
It is the only guide to the subject written specifically for undergraduates.. The authors draw upon many years of teaching experience in this field.. The coverage is systematic, and the writing accessible.
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Recycling the disabled
Examines the “medical organisation” of Imperial Germany for total war
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The reputation of philanthropy since 1750
Philanthropy, a 'love of humankind', is now thought of as the rich giving to good causes. The Reputation of Philanthropy explores how this came about and asks why praise for philanthropists has always been matched by criticism. Original and accessible, the book will inform thinking about the prop...
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Living with lodgers
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else’s home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners’ inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses England’s domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portrayal of the lives of the inhabitants.
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Crisis and change in european union foreign policy
This book provides wanting to study episodes of EU foreign policy change with a single analytical framework that serves to investigate and explain the way in which the EU adapts its foreign policy in the wake of crisis. It provides readers with a toolbox to explain, measure and conceptualise the ...
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Colonial discourse / postcolonial theory
The issues of colonialism and imperialism have recently come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. Disciplines such as history, literature and anthropology are taking stock of their extensive and usually unacknowledged legacy of Empire. At the same time, contemporary cultural theory has...
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Politics, performance and popular culture
Working with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political, this book brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base.
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Worlds of social dancing
A global history of couple dancing in commercial venues in the era of the two world wars.
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John mcgahern
This volume brings together contributions from a variety of disciplines to address the writer’s legacy and literary achievements. Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways, expanding the boundaries ...
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Defense policies of east-central european countries after 1989
This book clarifies the ways in which the defense policies of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia have responded to the new atmosphere on the edge of Europe, in light of Russian aggressiveness during and after the 2013-2014 Ukrainian-Crimean crisis.
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Global health and the new world order
What does global health stem from, when is it born and how does it relate to the contemporary world order? In this book, historians and anthropologists tackle these questions by exploring the transnational circulation of drugs, bugs, therapies, biomedical technologies and people in the context of...
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A book of monsters
This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of gothic fiction in the twentieth-century and examining post-modern revisions of Modernist “Promethean” tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing.
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Friends and enemies
This history examines the fraternal friendships and embittered masculine conflicts among British, American, and Irish leaders and their Dublin-based advisers during the Second World War, as those leaders sought to secure – or reject – Ireland’s alliance with the Western Allied powers in their exi...
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The suppression of the atlantic slave trade
The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this nineteenth-century ca...
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Dying for the nation
Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime – not just to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones, but to the state, tasked with managing the deaths of its citizens in conflict.
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Turning revolt into style
A detailed study of the creative ambitions, social and technological constraints behind the evolution of punk and post-punk graphic styles.
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Gender and colonial space
This is an analysis of the complex relationship between social relations and spatial relations. It sets out a new direction for postcolonial theory, and draws on analysis of a wide range of literary and non-literary texts to illustrate its new more materialist approach.
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Yerma
The second of Lorca's trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma, is a blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obsession of a childless young country wife, and probes the darker zones of human fears and desires. The play's rich mode of expression - a combination of ...
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False profits of ethical capital
This book is a timely study of an important political economic phenomenon: ESG investing and stakeholder capitalism. This book encourages new ways of thinking about corporate responsibility and how to contest it.
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Irish catholic identities
Explores the historical developments that shaped Irish identity and linked it so closely to Catholicism
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Gender, artwork and the global imperative
A theoretically astute overview of key developments in art and its contexts since the 1990s
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Patrice leconte
Lisa Downing's comprehensive study of the films of Patrice Leconte traces lines of continuity and revision through a body of apparently disparate films whose "messages" often appear both contradictory and controversial.
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Citizenship, nation, empire
Details contemporary debates about the purpose of history teaching and the influence of late-Victorian and Edwardian educational culture, and goes on to examine how pedagogical developments shaped the content of early-years reading books and textbooks.
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The relic state
Explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510–1961)
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Edmund burke's reflections on the revolution in france
In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was written.
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The asian financial crisis
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 shook the foundations of the global economy and what began as a localised currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. What went wrong and how did the Asian economies long considered 'miracles' respond? How did the United States, Japan and other G-7...
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Immersion
Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed
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Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere
Focusing on the cultural politics of eating and drinking and the importance of cafes and teashops to the literary culture of the time, Masculinities, modernist fiction and the urban public sphere charts the changing representations of masculinity in modernist fiction in the context of London, Dub...
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Monstrous adaptations
The first book devoted to the study of horror film and adaptation. Comprised of essays by top scholars in the field, this anthology includes analyses of such under-examined films as Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein, John Barrymore’s Jekyll and Hyde, Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la maison Usher, Gus van...
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College communities abroad
A comparative study of the colleges established by Irish, English and Scots Catholics across Europe through the early modern period.
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Sarah kane in context
First collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in their field on one of the most controversial and influential dramatists who emerged during the ‘In-Yer Face’ generation of British dramatists in the 1990s. Essential, wide-ranging, European guide to Kane for students and scholars of T...
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The art of darkness
This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. Across more than 500 pages, John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, drawing on his own experience and interviews with a host of bands, from The Banshees and The Cure to Throbbing Gristle.
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Novelle del novecento
The sixteen short stories in this anthology demonstrate the scope of the modern Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960. To this end, the collection contains writings by both established writers, such as moravia, Vittorini, Pavese and Pasolini, as well as by lesser-known figures such as Santucci ...
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Adjusting the contrast
This volume looks at a range of texts and practices that address race and its relationship with television. It explores television policy and the management of race, how transnationalism can diminish racial diversity, historical questions of representation, the myth of a multicultural England and...
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Madness and marginality
Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya’s ‘white insane’ to focus not on the ‘great white hunters’ and heroic pioneer farmers but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around ...
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Global biographies
Global biographies offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global history – ‘time and periodization’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’ – and a broad and critically reflective set of case-studies spanning the globe.
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Volumes of influence
Explores the work of a number of key writers and important books within the academic disciplines of politics and international relations. It revisits and re-evaluates some of the landmark books, and assesses the contribution of some of the most influential writers who have played a significant ro...
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Disrupting white mindfulness
Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives and norms that shape the Mindfulness Industry. Mindfulness is now common throughout the West, but this book reveals how the industry is infused with whiteness and late capitalism.
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The changeling
Competitive price and format. Compacted and up-to-date version of the earlier Revels Plays edition by the same editor, taking account of more recent critical works. A key Renaissance text.
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The end of the small party?
The first book to uncover how small groups like Change UK/The Independent Group exert influence in the British Parliament, based on first-hand interviews with the MPs themselves.
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Jean vigo
Film historian Michael Temple explores the intense career of Jean Vigo, one of the legendary figures of world cinema, and asks why he has had such a long-lasting impact on film culture around the world.
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Sport in the black atlantic
An ethnographic study exploring the role of cricket in maintaining cultural connections between Canadians and other members of the Caribbean diaspora.
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Diane kurys
This is the first book written on Diane Kurys. It is essential for study of women filmmakers in France/Europe. An original and concise reading of Kurys' work.
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Blair’s community
Blair’s community challenges the widely held view that New Labour’s policies and approach have reflected or even been influenced by the work of communitarian writers, by comparing party policy and rhetoric directly with their work.
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The adventure
This ethnographic study examines the moral, gendered, affective, social, and political dimensions of irregular migrants’ experiences of entrapment, uncertainty, and violence in Morocco. To counter dehumanising narratives of a crisis, the book is articulated around the emic notion of ‘the adventur...
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Living in sin
Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in Victorian England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. The work also analyses marriage, the Victorian legal system, relations with kin and the reactions of the wider comunities to extra-legal partnerships.
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Transformation of british life 1950–2000
This study examines the radical changes in standards of living, affecting housing, food and transport, as well as the major shifts in social, cultural and moral values which so altered Britain and its people in the second half of the 20th century.
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Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age
This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores British modernity, the social movements of the long 1960s and the Second Vatican Council, while acknowledging transnational relationships and global inter...
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Beautyscapes
Beautyscapes is the first book to focus specifically on cosmetic surgery tourism. It draws on key themes of interest to students and researchers interested in globalisation and mobility, such as gender and class, neoliberalism, social media, conviviality and care, to explain the nature and growin...
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Mussolini’s policemen
Examines Italy’s police in the context of fascism’s efforts to modernise and establish ideological control over the state. Presenting an inside perspective on fascist repression, it focuses on recruitment, training and professionalism in the Interior Ministry Police, and their ideological orienta...
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Sydney box
A lucid and informative account, drawing on unpublished material, of the career of one of the most successful and significant producers in British cinema. It provides discussion of all his films, including The Seventh Veil (1945), and affords an exceptional insight into the workings of the wartim...
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