Stage & Screen

This title covers the whole history of TV drama, from the early days of 'Coronation Street' to 'Life on Mars'. A general introduction traces the history of UK TV drama with a section on developments in US TV drama. The remaining nine chapters take the form of case studies of a specific TV drama.

Hollywood thrives on shoot outs - that series of stand-offs, skirmishes and power struggles that mark every stage of the film-making process - be it a director insisting on final cut, a star demanding a bigger trailer, or a grip with a gripe.

Shoot Out is about how movies are made - from the first pitch to the final cut.

Team Aniston or Team Jolie? Whether you have admittedly chosen a side, chances are you know the feud these slogans reference and perhaps even remember where you were when news of the Aniston-Pitt split broke.

This is the first study that is devoted to the highly significant roles played by France and Britain in the formulation of European audiovisual policy and that provides a truly comparative analysis of the contemporary audiovisual scene in the two countries. Overall, this volume offers a constructive contribution to the continuing debate...

The importance of contemporary television broadcasting for the shaping and development of national cultures and identities is increasingly evident. Television as the privileged medium for the dissemination of information and for mass entertainment has irreversibly altered the manner in which nations perceive themselves and each other.

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language.

Cultural studies scholarship on the television talk show, especially the "audience discussion" genre, was guardedly hopeful about its democratic or feminist potential. In this exciting new volume, Kathleen Dixon investigates the relationship between the talk genre and democracy, but through a new emphasis ...

Brings together five of the contemporary auteur directors - Francis Ford Coppola, Brian de Palma, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Tim Burton - and the directorial team of the Coen brothers. This work features interviews that catch each director at a crucial juncture in their development.

More than one hundred Hollywood luminaries speak out on their favorite films and their influence on their own careers in a collection of interviews with Johnny Depp, Martin Scorsese, Denzel Washington, Gena Rowlands, Jennifer Lopez, George Clooney, Bruce Willis, and other actors, writers, and directors. ...

'The HandE Book of Casting' is packed full of contacts within the media industry. It covers all areas, from production companies, cast directors and stuntmen to advertising agencies and legal services.

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted o’er In states unborn and accents yet unknown! – Julius Caesar, III.i.111 Many ages later, we are still enjoying Shakespeare’s works. But, too often, his plays are studied as "literature," ignoring the fact that Shakespeare wrote plays for ...

From 1920s marijuana mayhem through the cocaine storm that hit Hollywood in the '70s and the heroin chic films of the '90s, Shooting Stars investigates the drug myths propagated in movies and looks at the links between censorship, public morals and the Hollywood dream machine.

Corin Redgrave played Octavius Caesar in 1972 for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Brutus in 1986 at the Young Vic, London, and Julius Caesar in 1996 at Houston's Alley Theatre.

Rightly regarded as one of the 20th century's literary giants, Graham Greene has had his work translated to the cinema more than any other major modern writer. In Travels in Greeneland, Quentin Falk examines all facets of Greene's involvement with the film world, including his distinguished stint as ...

"Blue Velvet" is perhaps David Lynch's best film to date, and certainly his most well-known. Beneath its tranquil, small-town ambience lies violence and depravity on a hideous scale, with Dennis Hopper as Frank at its core. This work covers what one could possibly want to know about the film.

Details the different aspects of the "Alien" films - the different directors, the making of the films, the themes, the actors, and the tensions on the set.

The National Film and Television Archive collection of Shakespeare productions ranges from the first Shakespearean film ever made (King John in 1899) to the most recent television recordings. This book presents a critique of these holdings - the conventional renditions of the plays, the operas, documentaries, ...

This text analyzes the director Pedro Almodovar's insights into gender, sexuality and subjectivity in his film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". It draws on a range of psychoanalytic and critical concepts, and sees the film as an account of the often tyrannical spell of sexual desire.