For many sports fans in Wales, football is very much the game. In recent decades, rugby may have received more media attention, but there is some justification for the claim that it is soccer which is truly the national game of Wales. After all, the playing and watching of soccer has been characteristic of cities, towns and villages throughout the country and it is soccer, more than any other sport, which has helped forge an all-Wales identity. Whole communities have taken delight not just in their local teams but in the careers of those who have played for leading English and continental...
For many sports fans in Wales, football is very much the game. In recent decades, rugby may have received more media attention, but there is some j...
This volume focuses on the Welsh acting tradition. Although lacking a metropolitan centre, a culture in which both chapels and schools encouraged recitations and performance allowed an interest in amateur dramatics to develop. Eventually actors graduated from Wales to the glamour of London's West End and to the film studios. What did Welsh actors contribute to English-language theatre and cinema?
This volume focuses on the Welsh acting tradition. Although lacking a metropolitan centre, a culture in which both chapels and schools encouraged reci...
Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle, and discusses them within the context of the debate on the social significance of the feature film. It concentrates on films which depict labour organizations and political activists, as well as life in working-class communities and actors with working-class identities such as James Cagney.
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'...fills a gap in film studies...the study of...
Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically con...
