In Otherness in Hollywood Cinema, Michael Richardson argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places. He traces many of the ways in which Hollywood has constructed otherness, and discusses the extent to which those images have persisted and conditioned today's understanding.
Hollywood was from the beginning teeming with people who had experienced cultural displacement.A Coaxing the finest talents from around the world and needing to produce...
In Otherness in Hollywood Cinema, Michael Richardson argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources an...
In Otherness in Hollywood Cinema, Michael Richardson argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places. He traces many of the ways in which Hollywood has constructed otherness, and discusses the extent to which those images have persisted and conditioned today's understanding.
Hollywood was from the beginning teeming with people who had experienced cultural displacement.A Coaxing the finest talents from around the world and needing to produce...
In Otherness in Hollywood Cinema, Michael Richardson argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources an...
Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia: On the Needles of Days sheds much-needed light on the location of the greatest concentration of Surrealist photography and examines the culture and tradition within which it has taken root and flourished. The volume explores a rich and important artistic output, very little of which has been seen outside of its land of origin. Based on extensive research at museums in Prague and Brno and many conversations with participants in and historians of the movement, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson and Ian Walker analyse how this...
Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia: On the Needles of Days sheds much-needed light on the location of the greatest concentration of...
Youth Theatre: Drama for Life defines the youth theatre process, by outlining its constituent parts and explaining how these activities work in order to support young people's development. As well as describing what is done in youth theatre, it also explores why it's done and how to ensure the best possible outcomes.
The book is in four parts:
Part 1 explores the nature and purpose of youth theatre, drawing on Michael Richardson's extensive personal experience as a practitioner and manager.
Part...
Youth Theatre: Drama for Life defines the youth theatre process, by outlining its constituent parts and explaining how these activities work in ord...
In the 1970s and 80s a revival of interest emerged in researching Bristol's vigorous radical past, which has been echoed in the more recent historical studies concerning the involvement of the Bristol women's movement in the nineteenth century in anti-slavery campaigns, social reform, and the struggle for the emancipation of women. However, significant gaps in our knowledge still exist and there have been too few works that focus on the local dimension in examining, over an extensive time span, the pattern and dynamics of working class movements. This collection of essays from members of the...
In the 1970s and 80s a revival of interest emerged in researching Bristol's vigorous radical past, which has been echoed in the more recent historical...
Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting crisis of consciousness in a way that was arguably more profound than any other cultural movement of the time." "The past few decades have seen an expansion of interest in surrealist writers, whose contribution to the history of ideas in the twentieth-century is only now being recognised." Surrealism: Key Concepts" is the first book in English to present an overview of surrealism through the central ideas motivating the popular movement. An international team of contributors provide an accessible...
Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting crisis of consciousness in a way that was arguably more pr...
Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting crisis of consciousness in a way that was arguably more profound than any other cultural movement of the time." "The past few decades have seen an expansion of interest in surrealist writers, whose contribution to the history of ideas in the twentieth-century is only now being recognised." Surrealism: Key Concepts" is the first book in English to present an overview of surrealism through the central ideas motivating the popular movement. An international team of contributors provide an accessible...
Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting crisis of consciousness in a way that was arguably more pr...
