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Literature And Sound Film In Mid-Century Britain

by Lara Ehrenfried

~~71,54€~~ 64,39€ 10% OFF

 What happened to cinema and literature when synchronized sound was introduced to the film industry in the late 1920s? Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain studies the paths of film and text following this event. It asks how British cinema responded to the introduction of sound and how mid-century literature took up the challenge of the synchronized, audio-visual entertainment experience offered by this media change. By examining the technological and industrial histories of film and its narrative strategies and by drawing links to twentieth-century literary culture, this study offers a new way of approaching mid-century writing and its media ecology. Developing innovative, audio-visual close readings, this book offers a multi-sensory, multi-media approach that reframes the relationships between cinema and literature in the twentieth century. The study addresses a wide range of film genres, such as musical film, screwball comedy, the thriller, documentary, and melodrama alongside the writings of a large group of authors including Elizabeth Bowen, Patrick Hamilton, Evelyn Waugh, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Henry Green, Jean Rhys, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Eric Ambler. It covers an expansive range of films and texts of the 1930s and 1940s and invites readers to comprehensively rethink mid-century media culture by arguing for a growing synergy of film and text.
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Literature And Sound Film In Mid-Century Britain

by Lara Ehrenfried

~~71,54€~~ 64,39€ 10% OFF

 What happened to cinema and literature when synchronized sound was introduced to the film industry in the late 1920s? Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain studies the paths of film and text following this event. It asks how British cinema responded to the introduction of sound and how mid-century literature took up the challenge of the synchronized, audio-visual entertainment experience offered by this media change. By examining the technological and industrial histories of film and its narrative strategies and by drawing links to twentieth-century literary culture, this study offers a new way of approaching mid-century writing and its media ecology. Developing innovative, audio-visual close readings, this book offers a multi-sensory, multi-media approach that reframes the relationships between cinema and literature in the twentieth century. The study addresses a wide range of film genres, such as musical film, screwball comedy, the thriller, documentary, and melodrama alongside the writings of a large group of authors including Elizabeth Bowen, Patrick Hamilton, Evelyn Waugh, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Henry Green, Jean Rhys, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Eric Ambler. It covers an expansive range of films and texts of the 1930s and 1940s and invites readers to comprehensively rethink mid-century media culture by arguing for a growing synergy of film and text.
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Mid-Century Romance - Modernism, Socialist Culture, And The Historical Novel

by John T. Connor

~~77,29€~~ 69,56€ 10% OFF

 Mid-Century Romance chronicles a revival of the historical novel in the middle decades of the twentieth century in the cultures of British modernism and international communism. Born of a national turn in world politics, these novels met the turbulence of mid-century history with narratives of national becoming, roadmaps to situate their readers in the pattern of social change. Their writers were often mindful of the genre's romantic-era heritage: they saw themselves as following in the footsteps of Sir Walter Scott and they drew on the same rescued remains of primitive poetry and popular antiquities that romanticism first used to construct its versions of national identity, culture, and tradition. This book shows how the impulse to salvage traces of ancestral culture and press them to new purpose links the mid-century national-historical novel to the rise of radical social history and magical realism. Post-war anticommunism shaped a tradition of the novel as a preserve of art and the individual. Mid-Century Romance counters with a different genealogy of the British and world novel, whose object is society and the future of community, the nation and its people. It situates its cast of British writers--including the modernists Hope Mirrlees and Virginia Woolf, the communists Jack Lindsay and Sylvia Townsend Warner, the eccentric modernist and sometime fellow traveller John Cowper Powys, and the New Left luminary Raymond Williams--in a transnational perspective that reaches from Bihar, India to Bahia, Brazil.
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Imagining Yugoslavia In Mid-Century British And Irish Writing

by Guy (Research Associate In The Department Of English Studies, Research Associate In The Department Of English Studies, Durham University) Woodward

~~124,37€~~ 111,93€ 10% OFF

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 Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing is the first dedicated study of British and Irish cultural engagement with Yugoslavia in the 1940s and 50s, exploring a range of art forms and genres, including novels, film, war journalism, and travel writing, and addressing major authors such as Rebecca West and Louis MacNeice.
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Mid-Century Romance - Modernism, Socialist Culture, And The Historical Novel

by John T. Connor

~~77,29€~~ 69,56€ 10% OFF

 Mid-Century Romance chronicles a revival of the historical novel in the middle decades of the twentieth century in the cultures of British modernism and international communism. Born of a national turn in world politics, these novels met the turbulence of mid-century history with narratives of national becoming, roadmaps to situate their readers in the pattern of social change. Their writers were often mindful of the genre's romantic-era heritage: they saw themselves as following in the footsteps of Sir Walter Scott and they drew on the same rescued remains of primitive poetry and popular antiquities that romanticism first used to construct its versions of national identity, culture, and tradition. This book shows how the impulse to salvage traces of ancestral culture and press them to new purpose links the mid-century national-historical novel to the rise of radical social history and magical realism. Post-war anticommunism shaped a tradition of the novel as a preserve of art and the individual. Mid-Century Romance counters with a different genealogy of the British and world novel, whose object is society and the future of community, the nation and its people. It situates its cast of British writers--including the modernists Hope Mirrlees and Virginia Woolf, the communists Jack Lindsay and Sylvia Townsend Warner, the eccentric modernist and sometime fellow traveller John Cowper Powys, and the New Left luminary Raymond Williams--in a transnational perspective that reaches from Bihar, India to Bahia, Brazil.
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Writing Against Expulsion In The Post-War World - Making Space For The Human

by David (Professor Of Literature And Human Rights, Professor Of Literature And Human Rights) Herd

~~27,04€~~ 24,34€ 10% OFF

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 Herd tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment, returning to a period, following the Second World War, when the brutal consequences of a politics of expulsion were visible. The book is a deep defence of human rights at a moment when such rights are under attack. It shows how we can resist and think beyond the politics of border and nation.
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Literature And Sound Film In Mid-Century Britain

by Lara (Postdoctoral Researcher, Lmu Munich) Ehrenfried

~~104,09€~~ 93,68€ 10% OFF

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 This book traces how film adjusted to the new sound technology and how literature responded to the fact that cinema could now provide a synchronized, audio-visual entertainment experience to its viewers. It reframes the relationship between cinema and literature, arguing for a 'syncing up' of text and film.
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Geopolitical Shakespeare - Western Entanglements From Internationalism To Cold War

by Erica Sheen

~~68,89€~~ 62,00€ 10% OFF

 Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespearean culture in the geopolitical dynamics of the post-war West. Taking its cue from a speech given by Albert Einstein in London in 1933, in which Shakespeare is cited as an example of the Western value of personal and intellectual freedom, this book explores a series of events between 1945 and 1955 featuring key historical figures--scientists, international lawyers, diplomats and politicians, writers, actors, and filmmakers--who experienced the tensions of the early Cold War through Shakespeare, or called on him to articulate this new post-war world. Erica Sheen examines political, diplomatic, cultural, and economic interactions within ''core'' Western power relations--the USA, UK, and Europe, with particular reference to Germany--in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare, was entangled in the struggle for new ideas and social structures.The subjects of this book include John Humphrey and the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Nuremberg Trials and the foundation of West Germany; Noel Annan and the Berlin Elizabethan Festival; an American production of Hamlet in Elsinore; Laurence Olivier, David Selznick, and the Shakespeare film in post-war Hollywood; Graham Greene and The Third Man; and Carl Schmitt and Salvador de Madariaga on Hamlet in post-war Europe. In each of these case studies, Sheen discovers a Shakespeare for our time: engaged in contestations of territoriality in cultures of international law and human rights, theatre, film, and literature.
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Geopolitical Shakespeare - Western Entanglements From Internationalism To Cold War

by Erica Sheen

~~68,89€~~ 62,00€ 10% OFF

 Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespearean culture in the geopolitical dynamics of the post-war West. Taking its cue from a speech given by Albert Einstein in London in 1933, in which Shakespeare is cited as an example of the Western value of personal and intellectual freedom, this book explores a series of events between 1945 and 1955 featuring key historical figures--scientists, international lawyers, diplomats and politicians, writers, actors, and filmmakers--who experienced the tensions of the early Cold War through Shakespeare, or called on him to articulate this new post-war world. Erica Sheen examines political, diplomatic, cultural, and economic interactions within ''core'' Western power relations--the USA, UK, and Europe, with particular reference to Germany--in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare, was entangled in the struggle for new ideas and social structures.The subjects of this book include John Humphrey and the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Nuremberg Trials and the foundation of West Germany; Noel Annan and the Berlin Elizabethan Festival; an American production of Hamlet in Elsinore; Laurence Olivier, David Selznick, and the Shakespeare film in post-war Hollywood; Graham Greene and The Third Man; and Carl Schmitt and Salvador de Madariaga on Hamlet in post-war Europe. In each of these case studies, Sheen discovers a Shakespeare for our time: engaged in contestations of territoriality in cultures of international law and human rights, theatre, film, and literature.
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Scripting Empire - Broadcasting, The Bbc, And The Black Atlantic

by James Procter

~~33,11€~~ 29,80€ 10% OFF

 A volume on the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC. The volume covers over 40 different radio programmes which appeared within the 'Calling West Africa' and 'Calling West Indies' schedules between 1941 and 1965 and brings together a wide range of uncatalogued archive materials.
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Scripting Empire - Broadcasting, The Bbc, And The Black Atlantic

by James Procter

~~86,13€~~ 77,52€ 10% OFF

 A volume on the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC. The volume covers over 40 different radio programmes which appeared within the 'Calling West Africa' and 'Calling West Indies' schedules between 1941 and 1965 and brings together a wide range of uncatalogued archive materials.
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Frank O'Hara'S New York School And Mid-Century Mannerism - Perfectly Disgraceful

by Sam Ladkin

~~79,49€~~ 71,54€ 10% OFF

 Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara and the extraordinary cultural blossoming O'Hara catalysed, namely the mid-century experimental and multi-disciplinary arts scene, the New York School.
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Frank O'Hara'S New York School And Mid-Century Mannerism - Perfectly Disgraceful

by Sam Ladkin

~~79,49€~~ 71,54€ 10% OFF

 Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara and the extraordinary cultural blossoming O'Hara catalysed, namely the mid-century experimental and multi-disciplinary arts scene, the New York School.
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Mid-Century Romance - Modernism, Socialist Culture, And The Historical Novel

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 This study provides an account of the historical novel during the middle of the twentieth century, which has gone largely unremarked in accounts of the period and of the genre, and which connects it to the concerns of late modernism and socialist culture.
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Geopolitical Shakespeare - Western Entanglements From Internationalism To Cold War

by Erica (Professor Of Literature And Film, Professor Of Literature And Film, University Of York) Sheen

~~105,45€~~ 94,91€ 10% OFF

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 In this wide-ranging study, Erica Sheen explores the various ways in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare, was entangled in literary, cultural, political and diplomatic, legal, and economic attempts to articulate the tensions and opportunities of the early Cold War period.
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Writing Against Expulsion In The Post-War World - Making Space For The Human

by David Herd

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 Herd tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment, returning to a period, following the Second World War, when the brutal consequences of a politics of expulsion were visible. The book is a deep defence of human rights at a moment when such rights are under attack. It shows how we can resist and think beyond the politics of border and nation.
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Writing Against Expulsion In The Post-War World - Making Space For The Human

by David Herd

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 Herd tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment, returning to a period, following the Second World War, when the brutal consequences of a politics of expulsion were visible. The book is a deep defence of human rights at a moment when such rights are under attack. It shows how we can resist and think beyond the politics of border and nation.
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Frank O'Hara'S New York School And Mid-Century Mannerism - Perfectly Disgraceful

~~120,32€~~ 108,29€ 10% OFF

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 Frank O'Hara's New York School and Mid-Century Mannerism offers a ground-breaking account of the poet Frank O'Hara and the extraordinary cultural blossoming O'Hara catalysed, namely the mid-century experimental and multi-disciplinary arts scene, the New York School.
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Promise Of Welfare In The Postwar British And Anglophone Novel - States Of Repair

by Kelly M. Rich

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 A study of the literature of the Second World War and its aftermath, focusing on the welfare state and wartime visions of rebuilding Britain.
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Promise Of Welfare In The Postwar British And Anglophone Novel - States Of Repair

by Kelly M. Rich

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 A study of the literature of the Second World War and its aftermath, focusing on the welfare state and wartime visions of rebuilding Britain.
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Scripting Empire - Broadcasting, The Bbc, And The Black Atlantic

by James (Professor Of Modern And Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University) Procter

~~117,61€~~ 105,85€ 10% OFF

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 A volume on the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC. The volume covers over 40 different radio programmes which appeared within the 'Calling West Africa' and 'Calling West Indies' schedules between 1941 and 1965 and brings together a wide range of uncatalogued archive materials.
ENGLISH

Writing Against Expulsion In The Post-War World - Making Space For The Human

by David (Professor Of Literature And Human Rights, Professor Of Literature And Human Rights) Herd

117,61€ + 10% CARD

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 Herd tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment, returning to a period, following the Second World War, when the brutal consequences of a politics of expulsion were visible. The book is a deep defence of human rights at a moment when such rights are under attack. It shows how we can resist and think beyond the politics of border and nation.
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The Promise Of Welfare In The Postwar British And Anglophone Novel - States Of Repair

by Kelly M. (Associate Professor Of English, Harvard University) Rich

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 A study of the literature of the Second World War and its aftermath, focusing on the welfare state and wartime visions of rebuilding Britain.
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Literature And Justice In Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain - Crimes And War Crimes

by Victoria Stewart

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 This book examines how ideas about crime and judicial procedure that had developed in a domestic context influenced the representation and understanding of war crimes trials, victims of war crimes, and war criminals in post-WW II Britain. The depiction of Belsen concentration camp and the subsequent British-run trial are a focal point.
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